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Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti : Disaster Industrial Complex by Juliana Svistova; Loretta Pyles is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti demonstrates how social processes impact disasters as they unfold, through the distribution of power and resources, the use of discourses and images of disaster, and the economic and social systems and relations which underlie affected communities. The authors show how these processes played out in post-earthquake Haiti to set in motion the mechanics of the disaster industrial complex to (re)produce disasters and recovery rather than bring sustainable change. The book reveals that disaster and recovery rhetoric helped create fertile conditions for neoliberal disaster governance, militarized and digital humanitarianism, non-profiteering, and disaster opportunism to flourish while further disenfranchising marginalized populations. However, the Haiti earthquake, as is the case with all disaster sites, was ripe with mutual aid, community building, and collective action, all of

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Author

Juliana Svistova; Loretta Pyles

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315306018

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Social_sciences