Contextualizing disaster. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller.
• Editors: Button, Gregory; Schuller, Mark, 1973-
• Contents: <a href="/downloads/intros/ButtonContextualizing_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction ; Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller Chapter 1. A Poison Runs Through It: The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia; Gregory V. Button and Erin R. Eldridge Chapter 2. Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoons Haiyan and Yolanda; Greg Bankoff and George Emmanuel Borrinaga Chapter 3. "The Tremors Felt Round the World": Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community; Mark Schuller Chapter 4. Contested Narratives: Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake; Nia Parson Chapter 5. Decentralizing Disasters: Civic Engagement and Stalled Reconstruction after Japan's 3/11; Bridget Love Chapter 6. Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction; Roberto E. Barrios Chapter 7. "We Are Always Getting Ready": How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity in Alaska and Tuvalu; Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus Chapter 8. Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate: The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy; Melissa Checker Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.485; Natural disasters -- Social aspects; Natural disasters -- Press coverage; Political ecology; Globalization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785332814
• Related ISBNs: 9781785332807; 9781785333194
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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