The invention of disaster : power and knowledge in discourses on hazard and vulnerability / Noel Castree, JC Gaillard.

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for 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...

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Main Author: Gaillard, J. C.
Other Authors: Castree, Noel, 1968-
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change.
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Online Access:Taylor & Francis

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505 0 |a 1. What is a Disaster?2. A Genealogy of Disaster Studies3. Unfulfilled Promise of a Paradigm Shift4. The Quest for Pantometry5. The Governmentality of Disaster6. Climate Change and the Ultimate Challenge of Modernity 7. Exclusive Inclusion and the Imperative of Participation8. Gender in Disaster beyond Men and Women9. Power and Resistance in Disaster Risk Reduction10. The Invention of DisasterPostscript: Where to From Here? 
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