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Critical Disaster Studies

Critical Disaster Studies

Remes, Jacob A. C.
Horowitz, Andy

Hardcover

Series: Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0812253248
ISBN13: 9780812253245
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Aug 20 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This 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.

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.

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