After Disasters: Infrastructures, (Im)mobilities, and the Politics of Recovery By now, it is pat to say that the coronavirus pandemic has reoriented the geographies and temporalities of everyday existence, from leisure travel to professional
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After Disasters
Infrastructures, (Im)mobilities, and the Politics of Recovery
Benjamin Linder and Galen Murton
Pollution, Health, and Disaster
Emerging Contributions in Ethnographic Research
Alexa S. Dietrich
In an early 2017 discussion of future research priorities in disaster studies, Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, opined that social research on disasters would very soon confront a global
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 44–65 (22 total)
Mobile Disasters
Catastrophes in the Age of Manufactured Uncertainty
Steve Matthewman
natural hazards, rapid urbanization and the overconsumption of energy and natural resources threaten to drive risk to dangerous and unpredictable levels with systemic global impacts.” 7 All available evidence shows that disasters are increasing in
Introduction
Understanding Mobilities in a Dangerous World
Gail Adams-Hutcheson, Holly Thorpe, and Catharine Coleborne
We currently live in a “dangerous” world. Natural disasters, wars, and acts of terrorism are killing, injuring, and displacing millions each year. In the context of digital and social media proliferation, news of such events spreads across the
The Democracy of Everyday Life in Disaster
Holding Our Lives in Their Hands
Nancy L. Rosenblum
not dependent on people living nearby for safety or basic needs. Disaster—natural and political upheavals—changes that. Then, “first responders” are not the first. Neighbors hold our lives in their hands. William James captured the scene in an essay
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Article Commentary
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- 69–74 (6 total)
Catherine O'Byrne
The Piper Alpha disaster remains the most significant event in the history of the British North Sea oil industry, yet despite a large range of scholarship on the topic women's experiences of the disaster have not been heard publicly. This article uses oral history testimony to add the private experiences of women who were affected by the disaster to the public experiences of men. The focus of the analysis is on the gendered and political nature of remembrance and the impact that women had on the way that Piper Alpha was commemorated and remembered.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 90–104 (15 total)
Anatomy of a disaster
The neo-liberal state in Mumbai's 2005 flood
Judith Whitehead
This article discusses the networked forms of governance that have arisen as part of roll-out neo-liberal policies in Mumbai, India, focusing on the flood of 26 July 2005 and its aftermath. The municipal government's inaction during and after the flood is attributed to the decentralization of governance, as well as to cutbacks to public health and basic services in recent years. The rise of competitive urbanism as a part of roll-out neo-liberalism is analyzed as producing gaps in disaster management planning and implementation. The article concludes with a call for a refinanced state and a centralization of municipal bodies under a unified municipal council, seen as necessary to provide the professionalized services required during large-scale emergencies such as floods.
Zuzana Hrdličková
disaster managers in India. The field of disaster management has rapidly expanded in the past three decades as the minimization of human losses due to natural disasters has become a focus of global and national policies. 1 It has commonalities with
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 46–64 (19 total)
Susann Baez Ullberg
Flooding in Santa Fe City On 29 April 2003, a disastrous flood occurred in the Argentinean city of Santa Fe. The disaster came to be called by the city’s inhabitants simply “the flood.” The Santafesinos were shocked by the catastrophe. Judging from
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 27–45 (19 total)
Sicilian Futures in the Making
Living Species and the Latency of Biological and Environmental Threats
Mara Benadusi
Discourses and practices of anticipation occupy a hypertrophic space in contexts where uncontrolled industrial growth has inflicted grave damage on peoples and territories, even triggering environmental disasters. This article explores the use of nonhuman species as anticipatory devices in a petrochemical terminal in Sicily, focusing on public representations of three species: scavenger bacteria that play a cleansing role and underline citizens’ moral responsibility to secure their best possible futures through bioscience; migrating flamingos that breed under the petrochemical chimneys, raising the possibility of hopefulness by highlighting ecosystem resilience; and fish affected by spina bifida, which reveal human health status in advance, communicating the need to live in preparation for potential diseases. The analysis reveals the highly contentious character of these anticipatory devices and the contested ideas about possible futures they imply, thus shedding light on the ecological frictions that have repercussions locally and globally, in discourse and social practice.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 79–104 (26 total)