Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of evacuating people and animals from harm during emergencies, showing how it reveals, reinforces, and relies on structures of power.
Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of evacuating people and animals from harm during emergencies, showing how it reveals, reinforces, and relies on structures of power.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Footsteps: Diagramming High-Rise Evacuation 31 2. Mobile Medical-Military Machines 60 3. Evacuation and Euphemism: Memory, Lexicality, and Aphasia—From the Holocaust to Japanese American “Internment” 85 4. “The City is to Be Evacuated”: Roads, Race, and Automobility during the Early Cold War 115 5. Companion Evacuations at the Boundaries of Life 142 6. A Disengagement: Evacuation, Trauma, Colonial Vertigo, and National Reproduction 164 7. Seeing Evacuation Logistically 183 8. Burn 206 Conclusion. The End 232 Notes 255 References 265 Index
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Footsteps: Diagramming High-Rise Evacuation 31 2. Mobile Medical-Military Machines 60 3. Evacuation and Euphemism: Memory, Lexicality, and Aphasia—From the Holocaust to Japanese American “Internment” 85 4. “The City is to Be Evacuated”: Roads, Race, and Automobility during the Early Cold War 115 5. Companion Evacuations at the Boundaries of Life 142 6. A Disengagement: Evacuation, Trauma, Colonial Vertigo, and National Reproduction 164 7. Seeing Evacuation Logistically 183 8. Burn 206 Conclusion. The End 232 Notes 255 References 265 Index
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