Governing Disasters: Beyond Risk Culture

Book Overview

Based on extensive ethnographic and historical research conducted in diverse field locations, this volume offers an acute analysis of how actors at local, national, and international levels govern disasters; it examines the political issues at stake that often go unaddressed and demonstrates that victims of disaster do not remain passive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349493201
• ISBN13: 9781349493203
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"