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Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

The Invention of Disaster

Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

JC (University of Auckland Gaillard

The Invention of Disaster

Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

The Invention of Disaster

Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change: The Invention of Disaster

 

This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.


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Beschrijving Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change: The Invention of Disaster

This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.


ISBN
9781138805620
Pagina's
252
Verschenen
Serie
Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Rubriek
Exacte wetenschappen/natuurwetenschappen
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Taylor & Francis Ltd

Exacte wetenschappen/natuurwetenschappen