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02914aam a22004098i 4500 001 FE2781E2F70511E582760BA0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160331010051 008 141222s2015 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2014034001 020 $a 1137435453 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137435453 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)890622058 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCF $d NhCcYME $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 $a HV551.2 $b .G6713 2015 050 00 $a HV551.2 $b .G6713 2015 084 $a SOC040000 $a SOC002000 $a SOC040000 $2 bisacsh 130 0 $a Gouvernement des catastrophes. $l English. 245 10 $a Governing disasters : $b beyond risk culture / $c edited by Sandrine Revet and Julien Langumier ; translated by Ethan Rundell. 263 $a 1503. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a viii, 250 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Sciences Po series in international relations and political economy. 500 $a Translation of: Le gouvernement des catastrophes. Paris : ©Âditions Karthala, 2013. 520 $a "Irreversible and exceptional events, disasters are nevertheless governed, usually in the context of specific, dedicated interventions by state authorities or NGOs, who aim to lead the affected population from a place of emergency to a new, post-disaster - but still undefined - position. How do the victims of disaster interact with the dispositifs of government and disaster? Based on extensive research - both ethnographic and historical - conducted over a long period of time in field locations as various as Hong-Kong, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, France, Argentina, and Italy, this volume offers an acute analysis of how actors at local, national, and international levels govern disasters. Chapter contributions show that the victims of disaster do not remain passive; rather, they react to and critique what this volume calls the 'government of disaster' and one of its central paradigms, the culture of risk, which leaves unaddressed key political issues. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Crisis management. 650 0 $a Emergency management. 650 0 $a Disasters $x Social aspects. 700 1 $a Revet, Sandrine, $e editor. 700 1 $a Langumier, Julien, $e editor. 830 0 $a CERI series in international relations and political economy. 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20160331011225.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FE2781E2F70511E582760BA0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search