Disasters, risks and revelation
Subtitle: making sense of our times
By: Steve Matthewman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781137294258
Subjects: Social aspects; Sociological aspects; Disasters; Risk
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sociology and disasters; title: Accidents, disasters and revelation; title: The new normal; title: Riskworld? New species of trouble; title: Political economy, I: capitalism and disaster; title: Political economy, II: capitalism as disaster; title: Everyday disaster: notes on low visibility catastrophe; title: Conclusions.