Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. A Poison Runs Through It: The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia 19
5. Chapter 2. Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoons Haiyan and Yolanda 44
6. Chapter 3. “The Tremors Felt Round the World”: Haiti’s Earthquake as Global Imagined Community 66
7. Chapter 4. Contested Narratives: Challenging the State’s Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake 89
8. Chapter 5. Decentralizing Disasters: Civic Engagement and Stalled Reconstruction after Japan’s 3/11 112
9. Chapter 6. Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction 134
10. Chapter 7. “We Are Always Getting Ready”: How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity in Alaska and Tuvalu 153
11. Chapter 8. Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate: The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy 171
12. Index 196