Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
Andy Horowitz is Assistant Professor of History and the Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Jacob A. C. Remes is Clinical Associate Professor of History at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
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Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes Part I. Knowing Disaster Chapter 1. The Voyage of the Paragon: Disaster as Method Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb Chapter 2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster Ryan Hagen Chapter 3. When Does a Crisis Begin? Race, Gender, and the Subprime Noncrisis of the Late 1990s Dara Z. Strolovitch Part II. Governing Disaster Chapter 4. Concrete Kleptocracy and Haiti's Culture of Building: Toward a New Temporality of Disaster Claire Antone Payton Chapter 5. Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community-Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet Aaron Clark-Ginsberg Chapter 6. Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai, India Pranathi Diwakar Chapter 7. Plan B: The Collapse of Public-Private Risk Sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program Rebecca Elliott Part III. Imagining Disaster Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel Susan Scott Parrish Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk Kerry Smith Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness Chika Watanabe Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral Kenneth Hewitt Notes Bibliography Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments
Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes Part I. Knowing Disaster Chapter 1. The Voyage of the Paragon: Disaster as Method Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb Chapter 2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster Ryan Hagen Chapter 3. When Does a Crisis Begin? Race, Gender, and the Subprime Noncrisis of the Late 1990s Dara Z. Strolovitch Part II. Governing Disaster Chapter 4. Concrete Kleptocracy and Haiti's Culture of Building: Toward a New Temporality of Disaster Claire Antone Payton Chapter 5. Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community-Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet Aaron Clark-Ginsberg Chapter 6. Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai, India Pranathi Diwakar Chapter 7. Plan B: The Collapse of Public-Private Risk Sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program Rebecca Elliott Part III. Imagining Disaster Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel Susan Scott Parrish Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk Kerry Smith Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness Chika Watanabe Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral Kenneth Hewitt Notes Bibliography Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments
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