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Contextualizing Disaster by Gregory V. Button; Mark Schuller (editors) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Contextualizing Disaster about?
__Contextualizing Disaster__ offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences. Rather, building on insights developed by political ecologists, this book makes a compelling argument for understanding disasters as transnational and global phenomena.
Who reads Contextualizing Disaster?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gregory V. Button; Mark Schuller (editors)
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781785332814
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Anthropology, Social_sciences
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