Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments (Routledge New Security Studies)

By: Laura Centemeri and Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess

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Synopsis: This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centered on the notion of repairing. The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions, and analyses. It encourages socially, politically, and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the center of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors are engaged in struggles of sense-making over the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based ones which maintain structural conditions of inequality and exploitation, pre-existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions, and original empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters. This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 244 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000478563
Related ISBNs:: 9781032027159, 9781003184782, 9781032027135
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/19/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Laura Centemeri
Edited by:: Sezin Topçu
Edited by:: J. Peter Burgess