Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Rasmus Dahlberg, Olivier Rubin, Morten Thanning Vendelø

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area.

This book is is structured thematically around key approaches to disaster research from a range of different, but often complementary academic disciplines. Each chapter presents distinct approaches to disaster research that is anchored in a particular discipline; ranging from the law of disasters and disaster historiography to disaster politics and anthropology of disaster. The methodological and theoretical contributions underlining a specific approach to disasters are discussed and illustrative empirical cases are examined that support and further inform the proposed approach to disaster research.

The book thus provides unique insights into fourteen state-of-the-art disciplinary approaches to the understanding of disasters. The theoretical discussions as well as the diverse range of disaster cases should be of interest to both postgraduate and undergraduate students, as well as academics, researchers and policymakers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
1 Disaster research: an introduction
PART I Broad perspectives
2 Cracks in the past: historical approaches to disaster research
3 Theology and disaster studies: from ‘acts of God’ to divine presence
PART II Societal and cultural perspectives
4 Making sense of disaster: the cultural studies of disaster
5 The social life of disasters: an anthropological approach
6 Natural disasters and politics
7 Legal scholarship and disasters
8 Natural disasters, conflict and security
9 Analysing communication processes in the disaster cycle: theoretical complementarities and tensions
10 Disaster through a gender lens: a case study from Haiti
PART III Organizational perspectives
11 Organizational accidents theories
12 Disasters in the sensemaking perspective: the Præstø Fjord accident
13 Transboundary crises: organization and coordination in pandemic influenza response
PART IV Disaster intervention perspectives
14 Disaster financing in a developing country context
15 Disaster mental health: research and implications for intervention
Epilogue
Name index
Subject index