Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword 1. Disaster Research: An Introduction Part I: 2. Cracks in the Past: Historical Approaches to Disaster Research 3. Theology and Disaster Studies: From 'Acts of God' to Divine Presence Part II: 4. Making Sense of Disaster: The Cultural Studies of Disaster 5. The Social Life of Disasters: An Anthropological Approach 6. Natural Disasters and 7. Legal Scholarship and 8. Natural Disasters, Conflict and 9. Analyzing Communication Processes in the Disaster Cycle: Theoretical Complementarities and Tensions 10. Disaster through a Gender Lens: A Case Study from Haiti Part III 11. Organizational Accidents Theories 12. Disasters in a Sensemaking perspective: The Præstø Fjord Accident 13. Transboundary Crisis: Organization and Coordination in Pandemic Influenza Response 14. Disaster Financing in a Developing Country Context Part IV 15. Disaster mental Health: Research and Implications for Intervention Epilogue
