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2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster
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Ryan Hagen
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
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Introduction
- Introducing Critical Disaster Studies 1
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Part I. Knowing Disaster
- 1. The Voyage of the Paragon: Disaster as Method 11
- 2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster 32
- 3. When Does a Crisis Begin? Race, Gender, and the Subprime Noncrisis of the Late 1990s 51
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Part II. Governing Disaster
- 4. Concrete Kleptocracy and Haiti’s Culture of Building: Toward a New Temporality of Disaster 71
- 5. Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community- Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet 85
- 6. Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai, India 97
- 7. Plan B: The Collapse of Public- Private Risk Sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program 116
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Part III. Imagining Disaster
- 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel 133
- 9. The Tōkai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk 149
- 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness 165
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Afterword
- “Acts of Men”: Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral 184
- Notes 193
- Bibliography 229
- Index 261
- List of Contributors 271
- Acknowledgments 275
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
-
Introduction
- Introducing Critical Disaster Studies 1
-
Part I. Knowing Disaster
- 1. The Voyage of the Paragon: Disaster as Method 11
- 2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster 32
- 3. When Does a Crisis Begin? Race, Gender, and the Subprime Noncrisis of the Late 1990s 51
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Part II. Governing Disaster
- 4. Concrete Kleptocracy and Haiti’s Culture of Building: Toward a New Temporality of Disaster 71
- 5. Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community- Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet 85
- 6. Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai, India 97
- 7. Plan B: The Collapse of Public- Private Risk Sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program 116
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Part III. Imagining Disaster
- 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel 133
- 9. The Tōkai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk 149
- 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness 165
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Afterword
- “Acts of Men”: Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral 184
- Notes 193
- Bibliography 229
- Index 261
- List of Contributors 271
- Acknowledgments 275