The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)

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This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.

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Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd
Forfatter JC (University of Auckland Gaillard
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 09-01-2023
Første udgivelsesår 2023
Serie Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Illustrationer 3 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Originalsprog United Kingdom
Sideantal 252
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sideoplysninger 252 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white; 14 Illustrations, black and whi
Mål 154 x 234 x 18
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9781032162720