Contextualizing disaster /
Contextualizing disaster /
edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller.
- 208 pages ; 23 cm.
- Catastrophes in context ; volume 1 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Poison Runs Through It : The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia / Gregory V. Button and Erin Eldridge -- Whethering the Storm : The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda / Greg Bankoff and George Emmanual Borrinaga -- "The Tremors Felt 'Round the World" : Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community / Mark Schuller -- Contested Narratives : Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake / Nia Parson -- Revelation and Deconstruction : Decentralizing Japan after 3/11 / Bridget Love -- Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction / Roberto E. Barrios -- "We Are Always Getting Ready" : How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Alaska and Tuvalu / Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus -- Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate : The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy / Melissa Checker.
9781785332807 1785332805 9781785333194 1785333194
2016022447
Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Natural disasters--Press coverage.
Political ecology.
Globalization.
GB5014 / .C67 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Poison Runs Through It : The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia / Gregory V. Button and Erin Eldridge -- Whethering the Storm : The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda / Greg Bankoff and George Emmanual Borrinaga -- "The Tremors Felt 'Round the World" : Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community / Mark Schuller -- Contested Narratives : Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake / Nia Parson -- Revelation and Deconstruction : Decentralizing Japan after 3/11 / Bridget Love -- Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction / Roberto E. Barrios -- "We Are Always Getting Ready" : How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Alaska and Tuvalu / Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus -- Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate : The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy / Melissa Checker.
9781785332807 1785332805 9781785333194 1785333194
2016022447
Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Natural disasters--Press coverage.
Political ecology.
Globalization.
GB5014 / .C67 2016