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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Introduction: A Dozen Ways of Preventing Disaster 10 1. “Risk and Danger”, Risk and Blame, Mary Douglas, 2002 16 Risk and Society 16 Personal Safety and Public Honour 18 Heroic and Bourgeois Fiction 19 The Cultural Dialogue 20 Risks Are Always Political 21 A Cultural theory of Risk 22 Uncertainty 23 Conclusion 25 Acknowledgements 27 Further Reading 28 Notes 28 2. From Vulnerability to Empowerment, Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People, edited by Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks, and Dorothea Hilhorst, 2004 29 Introduction 29 Various views on ‘vulnerability’ and its users 29 Absence of people’s perspective in vulnerability assessments 31 Local people’s perception of ‘vulnerability’ 33 Development aggression’ as emerging human-made disaster 39 Local people’s perceptions and consequences for disaster-response policies: summary and conclusions 41 Further Reading 43 Notes 43 References 44 3. Sustainable Disasters?: Perspectives and powers in the discourse of calamity, Power of Development, edited by Jonathan Crush, 1995 46 Introduction: Disaster and Development 46 'Master Texts’ 48 Distancing and Dichoto

Author

Kelman, Ilan

Language

EN