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Book SynopsisWe think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapters and case studies written by eminent disaster studies scholars that deal with the politics of disaster risk creation: precarity, conflict, and climate change.
The chapters highlight different aspects of vulnerability and disaster risk creation, placing the stress rightly on what causes disasters and explaining the politics of how they are created through a combination of human interference with natural processes, the social production of vulnerability, and the neglect of response capacities. Importantly, too, the book provides a platform for many of those most prominently involved in launching disaster studies as a social discipline to reflect on developments over the past 50 years and to comment on current trends.
The interdisciplinary and historical perspective that this book provides will appeal to scholars and pr
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List of Contributors
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- Introduction: Why vulnerability still matters. Dorothea Hilhorst and Greg Bankoff
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Part I Why Vulnerability Still Matters
- Remaking the world in our own image: Vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation as historical discourses. Greg Bankoff
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- Between precarity and the security state: A post-vulnerability view. Kenneth Hewitt
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- Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability. Sarah Bradshaw, Brian Linneker, and Lisa Overton
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- What must be done to rescue the concept of vulnerability? Terry Cannon
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Part II Vulnerability, Conflict, and State-society Relations
- Disaster studies and its discontents: The postcolonial state in hazard and risk creation. Ayesha Siddiqi
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- Humanitarianism: Navigating between resilience and vulnerability. Dorothea Hilhorst
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- Resilience, food security, and the abandonment of crisis-affected populations. Susanne Jaspars
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- Vulnerability and resilience in a complex and chaotic context: Evidence from Mozambique. Luís Artur
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Part III Disaster Risk Creation
- Power writ small and large: How disaster cannot be understood without reference to pushing, pulling, coercing, and seducing. Ben Wisner.
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- Disaster risk creation: The new vulnerability. Thea Dickinson and Ian Burton
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- Vulnerable Anthropocenes?: Towards an integrated approach. Kasia Mika and Ilan Kelman.
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- ‘The hottest summer ever!’: Exploring vulnerability to climate change among grain producers in Eastern Norway. Bjørnar Sæther and Karen O'Brien
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