Public Catastrophes, Private Losses (The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century)

By: Naomi Klein and Marisa J. Fuentes and Christina Sharpe and Michelle Commander and Jennifer Flynn Walker and Bela August Walker and Marcia Gallo and Carmen Vázquez and Kathleen C. Riley and Smruthi Bala Kannan and Stacy S. Klein and Ellen Malenas Ledoux and Basuli Deb and Leslye Amede Obiora

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Synopsis: From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others. This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, and ecosystems. Using feminist methodologies, the contributors to Public Catastrophes, Private Losses trace the connections between seemingly unrelated forms of violence such as structural racism, environmental degradation, and public health crises. In contrast to a news media that focuses on mass fatalities and immediate consequences, these essays call our attention to how catastrophes can also involve slow violence with long-term effects. The authors also consider how these catastrophes are profoundly shaped by government action or inaction, offering a powerful critique of how government neglect has cost lives and demonstrating how vulnerable populations can be better protected. The essays in this collection examine how public catastrophes imprint themselves on lives, as individuals and communities narrate, process, and grapple with legacies of loss. The book is thus a feminist intervention that challenges the binary between public and private, personal and political.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978838758
Related ISBNs:: 9781978838789, 9781978838765
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/14/25
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sarah Tobias
Edited by:: Arlene Stein
Introduction by:: Sarah Tobias
Introduction by:: Arlene Stein