Evacuation: the politics and aesthetics of movement in emergency

"Evacuation examines the politics of emergency evacuations, arguing that, despite the undemocratic means and the violence of displacement that characterizes many evacuations, these events can also showcase human agency, collectivity, and compassion. Peter Adey poses evacuation as an object of g...

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1. Verfasser: Adey, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"Evacuation examines the politics of emergency evacuations, arguing that, despite the undemocratic means and the violence of displacement that characterizes many evacuations, these events can also showcase human agency, collectivity, and compassion. Peter Adey poses evacuation as an object of governance, examining the ways that local authorities, state governments, and federal governments interact with and control people in situations deemed as emergencies. Examining a range of evacuation case studies across the Global North such as the evacuation of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre on 9/11, evacuations of wounded soldiers during World War I, the forced evacuations of Jewish peoples and Japanese Americans during the second World War, and human and animal evacuations in response to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the recent Australian bushfires, Adey shows how evacuations cannot be separated from the legacies of racial colonialism that continue to fuel contemporary political and ecological disasters"--
Beschreibung:Bevorzugte Informationsquelle Landingpage des Verlags (Duke), da weder Titelbatt noch Impressum vorhanden
Beschreibung:ix, 313 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781478030584

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