Disaster culture: knowledge and uncertainty in the wake of human and environmental catastrophe
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Main Author: Button, Gregory ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA Left Coast Press © 2010
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Sea of Uncertainty; 2. Uncertainty and Social Conflict over Animal Rescue; 3. "What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You"; 4. "Damaged by Katrina, Ruined by Murphy Oil"; 5. Knowledge Withheld; 6. "What We Don't Know Can't Hurt You"; 7. Mediated Disaster Narratives; 8. Contested Knowledge; 9. The Production of Uncertainty; 10. Sequestered Knowledge; 11. A Gulf of Uncertainty; References; Index; About the Author
Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (311 pages)
ISBN:9781598746617
1598746618
9781598743883
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