Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil and Christoph Wulf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gil, Isabel Capeloa, editor.

Wulf, Christoph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters.

Risk assessment.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and how does it contribute to the sustainable development of societies?The book seeks to understand how societies and cultures deal with disaster and the rhetorical means they resort to in order to represent it. It is situated on the cusp between the response to natural catastrophe, the renewed awareness of human vulnerability in the face of environmental hazard and irresponsible policies and the social role of traditional knowledge and humanistic ideas for the preservation of human communities. It aims to be diverse, in disciplinary allegiance and cultural situation, and relevant, by bringing together articles by well-known scholars and policy makers to jointly discuss the possibilities of reframing hazard for the future, so that one may learn from restored behavior instead of repeating the mistakes of the past.

Contents:

Introduction : hazardous future: images and perceptions of disaster and the assessment of risk

Disaster (and) culture

The productivity of catastrophes in evolution and the challenge of manmade catastrophes

Catastrophe culture

Tragedy, the neglected origin of catastrophe theory

(e)spectating disaster : a cultural condition

Catastrophes, the imaginary and citizenship : the production of the other and the singularity of experience

The importance of social capital facing the unexpected (from natural hazards

to social disasters) : a style of thought

Big stories and small stories after a traumatic natural disaster from a psychotherapeutic point of view

In search of the lost oikos : Japan after the earthquake of 11 March 2011

A casuistry of disaster

The specter of Chernobyl : an ontology of risk

Living in a landscape of risk in java/indonesia

Performance and the deferral of the catastrophe narrative : Naoko Tanaka's

Performance-installation die scheinwerferin

The subjectification of disaster in video art : incidence of catastrophe by Gary Hill

Identifying a genre : televized tragedy

Screens of fire : surviving the end of the world

Zombies and citizens : the ontopolitics of disaster in Francis Lawrence's I am legend

How do we measure disaster? : how do we ensure security? : the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media

Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme

Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual

Resonance of World War two

Authors

Index of names.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110406610

3110406616

9783110406801

3110406802

OCLC:

909907713