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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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