The invention of disaster : power and knowledge in discourses on hazard and vulnerability
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The invention of disaster : power and knowledge in discourses on hazard and vulnerability
(Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk and climate change)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  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
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-243) and index
foreword by Noel Castree.
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions of people across very different cultures. It further challenges forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment that have been rolled out as standard and ultimate solutions to reduce the risk of disaster. Ultimately, the book encourages the emergence of a more diverse set of world views/senses and ways of knowing for both studying disasters and informing policy and practice of disaster risk reduction. Such pluralism is essential to better reflect local realities of what disasters actually are around the world.
This book is an essential read for scholars and postgraduate students interested in disaster studies as well as policy-makers and practitioners of disaster risk reduction.
Table of Contents
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?
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