The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability - Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change - Gaillard, JC (University of Auckland, NZ.) - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138805620 - December 31, 2021
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The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability - Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

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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.


215 pages, 10 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 31, 2021
ISBN13 9781138805620
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 252
Dimensions 241 × 160 × 24 mm   ·   576 g
Language English  

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