Gregory Button

Disaster Culture

Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781598743890
• ISBN-10: 1598743899
• Artikelnr.: 30513843

Autorenporträt

Gregory Button

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: A Sea of Uncertainty
2: Uncertainty and Social Conflict over Animal Rescue
3: "What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You"
4: "Damaged by Katrina, Ruined By Murphy Oil"
5: Knowledge Withheld
6: "What We Don't Know Can't Hurt You"
7: Mediated Disaster Narratives
8: Contested Knowledge
9: The Production of Uncertainty
10: Sequestered Knowledge
11: A Gulf of Uncertainty