Launch of new book on Geography and Disasters
HCRI鈥檚 Dr Nat O鈥橤rady鈥檚 co-edited anthology outlines the way Human Geography has extended our understanding of disasters.
Dr Nat O鈥橤rady, of HCRI, and Dr Gemma Sou, of Monash University, have just launched a new book titled .
The work, published by Bloomsbury, analyses disasters through the lens of different theoretical frameworks common to Geography, including assemblage theory, post-colonialism, urban political ecology, governmentality, affect theory and scale.
The case studies in the edited collection range from hurricane risk in the Caribbean and volcano eruptions in Chile to floods in India and many more. Thinking of them as processes rather than individual events, each contributor conceptualizes disasters as always-already entangled in the continual making and remaking of collective life.
The book, , includes contributions from HCRI鈥檚 Dr Nimesh Dhunghana (Chapter 1: 鈥楧issenting in Disasters: Lessons for the Disaster-Democracy Interface from Nepal's Dual Disasters鈥�) and PhD Candidate Francisca Vergara-Pinto (Chapter 7: 鈥楾he Affective Politics of Magma in Andean Worlds: Navigating more-than-human Kinship with Volcanoes in Disaster Research鈥�).
The full list of chapters, contributed by scholars from across the world, can be found on the anthology鈥檚 .
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