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8 produkter
Defying Displacement
Grassroots Resistance and the Critique of Development
Häftad, 2010
332 kr
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The uprooting and displacement of people has long been among the hardships associated with development and modernity. Indeed, the circulation of commodities, currency, and labor in modern society necessitates both social and spatial mobility. However, the displacement and resettlement of millions …
Disasters in Paradise
Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions
Av Amanda D. Concha-Holmes, Anthony Oliver-Smith
Inbunden, 2019
1279 kr
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Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well as natural phenomena, Amanda D. …
Angry Earth
Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
Av Anthony Oliver Smith, Susanna Hoffman
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by …
Angry Earth
Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
Av Anthony Oliver Smith, Susanna Hoffman
Häftad, 2019
822 kr
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The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by …
Angry Earth
Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
Av Susanna Hoffman, Anthony Oliver Smith
E-bok, 2019
970 kr
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The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by …
Angry Earth
Disaster in Anthropological Perspective
Av Susanna Hoffman, Anthony Oliver Smith
E-bok, 2019
970 kr
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The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relationship between societies and their environments. From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, disasters triggered by …
Catastrophe & Culture
The Anthropology of Disaster
Av Susanna M. Hoffman, Susanna M. Hoffman m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
386 kr
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At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and …
Development and Dispossession
The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement
Häftad, 2009
365 kr
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More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural disasters. Capital-intensive, high-technology, large-scale projects compel the displacement and resettlement of an estimated 15 million people every year in the process of converting …
