Negotiating disasters : politics, representation, meanings
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Negotiating disasters : politics, representation, meanings
P. Lang, c2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A wide spectrum of events are covered ranging from floods, the tsunami of 2004, earthquakes and landslides to such long-term processes as the decline of pastures or coastlines. The diversity of the case studies opens up questions on method and the conceptualization of terms. Many authors, among them anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and cultural psychologists engage in definition of crisis, disaster and catastrophe in order to differentiate emic and etic perceptions. They discuss topics like the politics of disaster, developments of boom economies, memory, rituals of mourning and culture change to name but a few. Concepts like risk, vulnerability and resilience are given ample theoretical consideration and are linked to local meanings and interpretation. This book reflects earlier research results and compares them with new theoretical and empirical findings.
Table of Contents
Contents: Ute Luig: Negotiating Disasters: An Overview - Michael Bollig: Social-Ecological Change and the Changing Structure of Risk, Risk Management and Resilience in a Pastoral Community in Northwestern Namibia - Ingo Haltermann: The Perception of Natural Hazards in the Context of Human (In-)security - Elisio Macamo/Dieter Neubert: "Flood Disasters". A Sociological Analysis of Local Perception and Management of Extreme Events Based on Examples from Mozambique, Germany, and the USA - Arne Harms: Squatters on a Shrinking Coast: Environmental Hazards, Memory and Social Resilience in the Ganges Delta - Manfred Zaumseil/Johana Prawitasari-Hadiyono: Researching Coping Mechanisms in Response to Natural Disasters: The Earthquake in Java, Indonesia (2006) -
Martin Soekefeld: The Attabad Landslide and the Politics of Disaster in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan - Pascale Schild: Representations and Practices of "Home" in the Context of the 2005 Earthquake and Reconstruction Process in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir - Edward Simpson: The Anthropology of a "Disaster Boom" Economy in Western India - Axel Schafer: Lightning, Thunderstorms, Hail: Conception, Religious Interpretations and Social Practice among the Quechua People of the South Peruvian Andes - Dorothea E. Schulz: In the Shadow of an Unreconciled Nature: Muslim Practices of Mourning and/as Social Reproduction in Uganda - Brigitte Vettori: Negotiating Culture: Indigenous Communities on the Nicobar and Andaman Islands as Focal Points in the Post-tsunami Media Coverage 2004/05.
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