{"product_id":"critical-disaster-studies-paperback-softback-9780812224825","title":"Critical Disaster Studies (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812224825","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCritical Disaster Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacob A.C. Remes (Edited by), Andy Horowitz (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812224825\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.438 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"When speaking of disaster henceforth, we cannot escape the ensuing political questions this volume interrogates.\" (Los Angeles Review of Books) \"In a world marked by calamity, this timely volume widens the lens of our understanding by emphasizing the importance of deeply contextualized approaches to the study of disaster. The end result is a vibrant reimagination of the field and a captivating introduction to critical disaster studies.\" (Lori Peek, University of Colorado Boulder) \"This is a vital, iconoclastic volume that turns much conventional thinking about disaster studies on its head. The contributions are lively, geographically varied, and conceptually suggestive. An exciting and invaluable book.\" (Rob Nixon, Princeton University) \"An urgent, timely, and vitally important volume that deserves a wide readership. As the crisis precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic has made all too clear, this volume's unifying themes—vulnerability, risk, resilience, and disaster—are concepts that every one of us ought to understand, grapple with, and critique.\" (Julia Irwin, University of South Florida)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions-and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, critical disaster studies reveals the stakes of defining people or places as vulnerable, resilient, or at risk.\u003cbr\u003e As social constructs, disaster, vulnerability, resilience, and risk shape and are shaped by contests over power. Managers and technocrats often herald the goals of disaster response and recovery as objective, quantifiable, or self-evident. In reality, the goals are subjective, and usually contested. Critical disaster studies attends to the ways powerful people often use claims of technocratic expertise to maintain power.\u003cbr\u003e Moreover, rather than existing as isolated events, disasters take place over time. People commonly imagine disasters to be unexpected and sudden, making structural conditions appear contingent, widespread conditions appear local, and chronic conditions appear acute. By placing disasters in broader contexts, critical disaster studies peels away that veneer.\u003cbr\u003e With chapters by scholars of five continents and seven disciplines, \u003ci\u003eCritical Disaster Studies\u003c\/i\u003e asks how disasters come to be known as disasters, how disasters are used as tools of governance and politics, and how people imagine and anticipate disasters. The volume will be of interest to scholars of disaster in any discipline and especially to those teaching the growing number of courses on disaster studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies\u003cbr\u003e Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Knowing Disaster\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Voyage of the \u003ci\u003eParagon\u003c\/i\u003e: Disaster as Method\u003cbr\u003e Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster\u003cbr\u003e Ryan Hagen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. When Does a Crisis Begin? Race, Gender, and the Subprime Noncrisis of the Late 1990s\u003cbr\u003e Dara Z. Strolovitch\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Governing Disaster\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Concrete Kleptocracy and Haiti's Culture of Building: Toward a New Temporality of Disaster\u003cbr\u003e Claire Antone Payton\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community-Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet\u003cbr\u003e Aaron Clark-Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai, India\u003cbr\u003e Pranathi Diwakar\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Plan B: The Collapse of Public-Private Risk Sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program\u003cbr\u003e Rebecca Elliott\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Imagining Disaster\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel\u003cbr\u003e Susan Scott Parrish\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Tōkai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk\u003cbr\u003e Kerry Smith\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness\u003cbr\u003e Chika Watanabe\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. \"Acts of Men\": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral\u003cbr\u003e Kenneth Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523183997208,"sku":"9780812224825","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/critical-disaster-studies-paperback-softback-9780812224825","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}