Disaster, conflict and society in crises : everyday politics of crisis response / edited by Dorothea Hilhorst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilhorst, Thea.

Series:

Routledge humanitarian studies series ; 1.

Routledge humanitarian studies series ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief.

Emergency management.

Conflict management.

Economic assistance.

Physical Description:

xiv, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse - are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? Emphasising the importance of everyday politics and practice, this book unravels the working of crises in society. The first part of the book deals with the multiple ways in which crises can be understood and acted upon. This is done through -amongst others - a discourse analysis of peace narratives in Sri Lanka and everyday climate change adaptation politics in Mozambique. The second part deals with the question how local institutions fare under and transform in response to crises. Conflicts and disasters are breakpoints of social order, but they are also marked by processes of continuity and re-ordering, or the creation of new institutions and linkages. Finally, the social and political realities of different arenas of interventions in crisis are examined, including humanitarian aid, peace-building, and disaster risk reduction. This book gives an invaluable wealth of case studies and unique socio-political science analysis of the humanitarian studies field, both for students and researchers in humanitarian studies, disaster studies, conflict and peace studies, as well as humanitarian and development practitioners. Book jacket.

Contents:

Disaster, conflict and society in crises : everyday politics of crisis response / Dorothea Hilhorst

Discourses of war, peace and peace-building in Sri Lanka / Georg Frerks

The political history of disaster management in Mozambique / Luis Artur

The de-disasterization of food crises : structural reproduction or change in policy development and response options? : a case study from Ethiopia / Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen

The politics of "catastrophization" / Jeroen Warner

Conflict, governance and institutional multiplicity : parallel governance in Kosovo and Chiapas (Mexico) / Gemma van der Haar and Merel Heijke

Two decades of ordering refugees : the development of institutional multiplicity in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp / Bram Jansen

Conflict minerals in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) : planned interventions and unexpected outcomes / Jeroen Cuvelier

Institutional multiplicity in post-conflict reconstruction : the case of a local church in Bunjei, Angola / Maliana Serrano

Flying below the radar : inter-ethnic marriages in Sri Lanka's war zone / Timmo Gaasbeek

Humanitarian space as arena : a perspective on the everyday politics of aid / Dorothea Hilhorst and Bram J. Jansen

The politics of peacebuilding through strengthening civil society / Mathijs van Leeuwen

The everyday politics of disaster risk reduction in central Java, Indonesia / Annelies Heijmans

Post-conflict recovery and linking relief, rehabilitation and development in Angola : from crisis to normality? / Hilde van Dijkhorst

Doing good being nice? : aid legitimacy and mutual imaging of aid workers and aid recipients / Dorothea Hilhorst, Gemma Andriessen, Lotte Kemkens and Loes Weijers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415640817

0415640814

9780415640824

0415640822

OCLC:

794041133