Contextualizing Disaster (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Button, Gregory V.; Schuller, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785332814
• Artikelnr.: 47392553

Autorenporträt

Gregory V. Button is an internationally recognized disaster researcher and a former faculty member at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, as well as a former faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he was Co-Director of the Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights. A Former U.S Senate Congressional Fellow he has published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. His work has been featured in many major media outlets. He is a regular contributor to public radio stations and a frequent writer for Counterpunch.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller
Chapter 1. A Poison Runs Through It: The Elk River Chemical Spill in West
Virginia
Gregory V. Button and Erin R. Eldridge
Chapter 2. Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoons Haiyan and
Yolanda
Greg Bankoff and George Emmanuel Borrinaga
Chapter 3. "The Tremors Felt Round the World": Haiti's Earthquake as Global
Imagined Community
Mark Schuller
Chapter 4. Contested Narratives: Challenging the State's Neoliberal
Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake
Nia Parson
Chapter 5. Decentralizing Disasters: Civic Engagement and Stalled
Reconstruction after Japan's 3/11
Bridget Love
Chapter 6. Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction
Roberto E. Barrios
Chapter 7. "We Are Always Getting Ready": How Diverse Notions of Time and
Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity in Alaska and Tuvalu
Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus
Chapter 8. Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate: The Political
Ecology of Superstorm Sandy
Melissa Checker
Bibliography
Index