Description
Product ID: | 9781032027159 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Routledge New Security Studies |
Title: | Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery |
Subtitle: | Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments |
Authors: | Author: J. Peter Burgess, Sezin Topcu, Laura Centemeri |
Page Count: | 244 |
Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), Social groups, communities and identities, Sociology, Anthropology, Politics and government, International relations, Warfare and defence, Geography, Environmental policy and protocols, Natural disasters, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Social impact of disasters, Social groups, Sociology, Anthropology, Politics & government, International relations, Warfare & defence, Geography, Environmental policy & protocols, Natural disasters, Environmental science, engineering & technology |
Description: | This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centered on the notion of repairing. This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing. The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and original empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters. This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-05-31 |