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  • THE INVENTION OF DISASTER
    JC GAILLARD
    This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be u...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
    ILAN KELMAN, JESSICA MERCER, JC GAILLARD
    The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together. This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that a common research agenda and a series of practical p...

    $1,320.00

  • REIMAGINING DISASTERS
    JC GAILLARD / KSENIA CHMUTINA
    Reimagining Disasters builds on the momentum gained by the 2019 Disaster Studies Manifesto, which aims to inspire and inform more respectful, reciprocal and genuine relationships between home and visiting researchers in disaster studies. The book challenges normative understandings of disaster and moves away from the hegemony of Western ontologies and epistemologies in understa...

    $1,160.00