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Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments

Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments

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Series: Routledge New Security Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032027150
ISBN13: 9781032027159
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the what-ness of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and original empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters.

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