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Author:   Gregory V. Button ,  Mark Schuller
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9781785333194

ISBN 10:   1785333194
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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This book presents a vivid picture of extreme events and how different parties involved in the recovery process contextualize them. * Arthur D. Murphy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro This book will be read and read again. I intend to use it in my course, Disaster, Self, and Society, and I suspect others, both sociologists and anthropologists, will assign it to their respective classes. Moreover, it will be read by scholars, enriching their understanding of mayhem. Well done. * Steve Kroll-Smith, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Contextualizing Disaster, edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller, makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the social construction of disasters by contextualizing them in novel and diverse ways... The eight book chapters offer new and innovative analysis of recent disasters that to varying degrees are all translocal, and each chapter is carried by its own narrative. ... The book is providing fresh impetus not only for disaster scholars but also for DRR institutions and media. * Anthropos This book presents a vivid picture of extreme events and how different parties involved in the recovery process contextualize them. * Arthur D. Murphy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro This book will be read and read again. I intend to use it in my course, 'Disaster, Self, and Society,' and I suspect others, both sociologists and anthropologists, will assign it to their respective classes. Moreover, it will be read by scholars, enriching their understanding of mayhem. Well done. * Steve Kroll-Smith, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Contextualizing Disaster, edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller, makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the social construction of disasters by contextualizing them in novel and diverse ways... The eight book chapters offer new and innovative analysis of recent disasters that to varying degrees are all translocal, and each chapter is carried by its own narrative. ... The book is providing fresh impetus not only for disaster scholars but also for DRR institutions and media. Anthropos

Author Information

Gregory V. Button is an internationally recognized disaster researcher and a former faculty member at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, as well as a former faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he was Co-Director of the Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights. A Former U.S Senate Congressional Fellow he has published dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters. His work has been featured in many major media outlets. He is a regular contributor to public radio stations and a frequent writer for Counterpunch.

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