Governing Disasters [electronic resource] : Beyond Risk Culture /
Revet, S.editor.
Langumier, J.editor.
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.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Political sociology.
Ethnology.
Social policy.
Social service.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Political Sociology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Social Policy.
Social Work and Community Development.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.