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Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

Gaillard

The Invention of Disaster

Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-16272-0
Verlag: Routledge

Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

ISBN: 978-1-032-16272-0
Verlag: Routledge

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions of people across very different cultures. It further challenges forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment that have been rolled out as standard and ultimate solutions to reduce the risk of disaster. Ultimately, the book encourages the emergence of a more diverse set of world views/senses and ways of knowing for both studying disasters and informing policy and practice of disaster risk reduction. Such pluralism is essential to better reflect local realities of what disasters actually are around the world.

This book is an essential read for scholars and postgraduate students interested in disaster studies as well as policy-makers and practitioners of disaster risk reduction.

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Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaillard, Jc

Fachgebiete

Weitere Infos & Material

1. What is a Disaster?

2. A Genealogy of Disaster Studies

3. Unfulfilled Promise of a Paradigm Shift

4. The Quest for Pantometry

5. The Governmentality of Disaster

6. Climate Change and the Ultimate Challenge of Modernity

7. Exclusive Inclusion and the Imperative of Participation

8. Gender in Disaster beyond Men and Women

9. Power and Resistance in Disaster Risk Reduction

10. The Invention of Disaster

Postscript: Where to From Here?

JC Gaillard is Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand).

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