Reidar Staupe-Delgado

Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from the Colombian Andes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000456790
• Artikelnr.: 62441142

Autorenporträt

Reidar Staupe-Delgado is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disasters, health emergencies and broader social problems, with a particular focus on slowly manifesting disasters.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by JC Gaillard Part 1: Context 1. Introduction: life in
anticipation of slow calamity 2. Aponte: political, geographical and
community context 3. The phenomenon: the natural hazard and its
characteristics: some reflections Part 2: Experiencing slow calamity 4.
Making sense of the hazard: interpretations of the phenomenon 5. Living
with a slow calamity: disruption and continuity in the face of creeping
destruction 6. The ancestral land: territory, community and resettlement
Part 3: Reflections 7. Living in anticipation of impending calamity:
towards an analytical notion 8. Concluding reflections