JC Gaillard

The Invention of Disaster

Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 241mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138805620
• ISBN-10: 1138805629
• Artikelnr.: 42739578

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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?