Defining Disaster

Disciplines and Domains

AvMarie Aronsson-Storrier,Rasmus Dahlberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This timely book unpacks the idea of ‘disaster’ from a variety of approaches, broadening understanding and improving the usability of this complex and often contested concept. Including multidisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, it offers reflections on how the concept of disaster has been shaped by and within various fields of research, providing complementary and thought-provoking comparisons across many domains.Functioning as an important point of reference between and across disciplines, chapters explore the forces and building blocks of disaster and how these are interpreted, providing opportunities for dialogue between multiple points of view. The book concludes with a broader, integrated discussion of the aspects of disaster research covered, putting forward suggestions for further cooperation between disciplines and a future research agenda.Defining Disaster will be a fascinating read for disaster researchers in disciplines including law, sociology, and social and public policy who wish to improve their understanding of how their work maps onto the wider field. It will also be beneficial for policy makers and practitioners in this area looking for a rounded view of contemporary cross-disciplinary research on the subject.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-21
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781839100291

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Edited by Marie Aronsson-Storrier, School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland and Rasmus Dahlberg, Associate Professor, Institute for Strategy and War Studies, Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark

Recensioner i media

‘Bringing together anthropology, geography, social work, and law, among other disciplines, this new edited book from Aronsson-Storrier and Dahlberg tackles a critical issue in an era of climate change, extreme weather events, and man-made shocks: how to define a disaster. Rather than providing easy answers, each chapter contributes a different perspective on this topic, some universal, and others quite specific. This book would serve as an ideal discussion piece for undergraduates and graduate students alike.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:Preface xv1 On disaster: disciplines, domains and definitions 1Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg2 Prologue: the sociology of disaster – a US perspective onthe transformational conceptualization embedded in a discipline 9Tricia WachtendorfPART I DISCIPLINES3 Disaster anthropology: vulnerability, process and meaning 30Kristoffer Albris4 Keep the curtains drawn! Event, process and disaster ininternational law 45Marie Aronsson-Storrier5 Positioning social work in relation to disasters: a socialnotion running along a continuum 58Carin Björngren Cuadra6 Defining the role of public health in disasters andemergency management 72Kevin Blanchard7 Disaster in engineering and earthquake science 90Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir8 Defining disaster in volcanology 107Jazmin P. Scarlett, Ailsa Naismith and Ashleigh RushtonPART II DOMAINS9 Whose views matter? Navigating insiders’ and outsiders’understanding of disasters 123Loïc Le Dé and J.C. Gaillard10 Drought, famine and disasters 140Olivier Rubin11 Defining disasters through international space governance 157Nathan Clark12 Disaster definitions from an Arctic perspective 176Natalia Andreassen and Rebecca Pincus13 Disaster movies: definitions, filmography and three analyses 194Rasmus Dahlberg and Uta Reichardt14 Systemic disasters: considering the whole and notconstituent parts 212Livhuwani Nemakonde15 Epilogue: what are disasters not? 228Ilan KelmanIndex