Negotiating Disasters: Politics, Representation, Meanings

Ute Luig

ISBN 10: 3631610963 / ISBN 13: 9783631610961

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2012, 2012

Beschreibung

Neuware -A wide spectrum of events are covered ranging from floods, the tsunami of 2004, earthquakes and landslides to such long-term processes as the decline of pastures or coastlines. The diversity of the case studies opens up questions on method and the conceptualization of terms. Many authors, among them anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and cultural psychologists engage in definition of crisis, disaster and catastrophe in order to differentiate emic and etic perceptions. They discuss topics like the politics of disaster, developments of boom economies, memory, rituals of mourning and culture change to name but a few. Concepts like risk, vulnerability and resilience are given ample theoretical consideration and are linked to local meanings and interpretation. This book reflects earlier research results and compares them with new theoretical and empirical findings. 338 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631610961

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Negotiating Disasters: Politics, Representation, Meanings
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2012
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631610963
• ISBN-13: 9783631610961
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 210B x 148 H x 19 T Millimeter Breite: 210 mm, Höhe: 148 mm, Tiefe: 19 mm
• Gewicht: 438 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

A wide spectrum of events are covered ranging from floods, the tsunami of 2004, earthquakes and landslides to such long-term processes as the decline of pastures or coastlines. The diversity of the case studies opens up questions on method and the conceptualization of terms. Many authors, among them anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and cultural psychologists engage in definition of crisis, disaster and catastrophe in order to differentiate emic and etic perceptions. They discuss topics like the politics of disaster, developments of boom economies, memory, rituals of mourning and culture change to name but a few. Concepts like risk, vulnerability and resilience are given ample theoretical consideration and are linked to local meanings and interpretation. This book reflects earlier research results and compares them with new theoretical and empirical findings.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ute Luig was until 2010 Professor of Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She did long-term fieldwork in different African countries and Cambodia. Her main interests besides the conceptualization of nature and cultural approaches to disaster research are memory and spirit possession cults. She studied disasters from different perspectives, e.g. in form of the HIV/AIDS crisis, war and memory in Cambodia and cultural interpretations of so-called «natural disasters».