Disasters are commonly understood as exceptional occurences that destroy human life, property, and resources. But what is the relationship between such occurences and modern states responsible for guarding society against them? In All Is Well, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay argues that disasters are artifacts of "normal" rule.They result from the same, mundane strategies of knowledge-making, and violence by which authorities, experts, and people struggle to develop state-like power, to define and defend the social order. Drawing on three case studies, Bandopadhyay examines eighteenth-century…mehr
Disasters are commonly understood as exceptional occurences that destroy human life, property, and resources. But what is the relationship between such occurences and modern states responsible for guarding society against them? In All Is Well, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay argues that disasters are artifacts of "normal" rule.They result from the same, mundane strategies of knowledge-making, and violence by which authorities, experts, and people struggle to develop state-like power, to define and defend the social order. Drawing on three case studies, Bandopadhyay examines eighteenth-century exercises in catastrophe conservation and state formation, and shows how the underlying beliefs and resulting insights shape contemporary narratives, norms, and practices of global disaster management.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Saptarishi Bandopadhyay is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He has followed and engaged disaster management efforts in India, in the borderlands between India, Pakistan, and China, and in the Philippines. He has learned from and advised officials and civil society in India, Thailand, the Philippines, and Canada and has published widely on disaster risk, international law, and related areas. Saptarishi has received research and advocacy grants and fellowships from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Harvard University, the Public International Law and Policy Group, the Center for International Environmental Law, Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, York University's Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, among other institutions.
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Preface 1. In the Shadow of Leviathans Seen and Unseen 2. Corner Pieces 3. Marseille 1720: Administrative Catharsis as Disaster Management 4. Portugal 1755: Empire of Accident 5. Bengal 1770: Famine, Corruption, and the Climate of Legal Despotism 6. Risk Thinking and the Enduring Structure of Vicissitudes 7. The Past-Imperfect Future Notes Acknowledgements Index
Preface 1. In the Shadow of Leviathans Seen and Unseen 2. Corner Pieces 3. Marseille 1720: Administrative Catharsis as Disaster Management 4. Portugal 1755: Empire of Accident 5. Bengal 1770: Famine, Corruption, and the Climate of Legal Despotism 6. Risk Thinking and the Enduring Structure of Vicissitudes 7. The Past-Imperfect Future Notes Acknowledgements Index
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