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The institutionalisation of disaster risk reduction : South Africa and neoliberal governmentality / Gideon van Riet.

Van Pelt Library HV551.5.S6 R54 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Riet, Gideon van, author.
Series:
Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change
Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk and climate change
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Emergency management--Government policy--South Africa.
Emergency management.
Emergency management--Government policy.
South Africa.
Physical Description:
120 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Contents:
A genealogy of disaster risk assessment and management
South Africa's disaster risk profile
Writing structural violence : conceptualising ordinary South African being
Modes of institutionalisation
Knowledge production
Multiple dystopias
Conclusion : (un)framing risk as a techno-political instrument.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781138206779
1138206776
OCLC:
957598003

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