Cultures and Disasters (eBook, PDF)

Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Redaktion: Krüger, Fred; Schipper, E. Lisa F.; Orlowski, Benedikt; Cannon, Terry; Bankoff, Greg

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Produktbeschreibung

Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? Making sense of such questions and observations is only possible by understanding how the decision-making of societies at risk is embedded in culture, and how intervention measures acknowledge, or neglect, cultural settings. The social construction of risk is being given increasing priority in understand how people experience and prioritize hazards in their own lives and how vulnerability can be reduced, and resilience increased, at a local level.

Culture and Disasters adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore this cultural dimension of disaster, with contributions from leading international experts within the field. Section I provides discussion of theoretical considerations and practical research to better understand the important of culture in hazards and disasters. Culture can be interpreted widely with many different perspectives; this enables us to critically consider the cultural boundedness of research itself, as well as the complexities of incorporating various interpretations into DRR. If culture is omitted, related issues of adaptation, coping, intervention, knowledge and power relations cannot be fully grasped. Section II explores what aspects of culture shape resilience? How have people operationalized culture in every day life to establish DRR practice? What constitutes a resilient culture and what role does culture play in a society's decision making? It is natural for people to seek refuge in tried and trust methods of disaster mitigation, however, culture and belief systems are constantly evolving. How these coping strategies can be introduced into DRR therefore poses a challenging question. Finally, Section III examines the effectiveness of key scientific frameworks for understanding the role of culture in disaster risk reduction and management. DRR includes a range of norms and breaking these through an understanding of cultural will challenge established theoretical and empirical frameworks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317754640
• Artikelnr.: 42645627

Autorenporträt

Fred Krüger is Professor of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Greg Bankoff is Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, UK. Terry Cannon is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK. Benedikt Orlowski is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. E. Lisa F. Schipper is a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, London, UK, and Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Editors Section 1 The Culture of (De-)Constructing
Disasters 1.1 Framing Disasters in the Global Village: Cultures of
Rationality in Risk, Security, and News Kenneth Hewitt 1.2 Conversations in
Catastrophe: Neoliberalism and the cultural construction of disaster risk
Anthony Oliver-Smith 1.3 Design by Disasters: Seismic Architecture and
Cultural Adaptation to Earthquakes Greg Bankoff 1.4 Learning from History?
Chances, Problems and Limits of Learning from Historical Natural Disasters
Gerrit Schenk 1.5 Disasters, Climate Change and the Significance of
'Culture' Terry Cannon Section 2 Cultural Linkages to Vulnerability 2.1
Cultures and contra-cultures: Social divisions and behavioural origins of
vulnerabilities to disaster risk James Lewis 2.2 The cultural sense of
disasters. Practices and singularities in the context of HIV/AIDS Klaus
Geiselhart, Fabian Schlatter, Benedikt Orlowski, and Fred Krüger 2.3
Religion and Belief Systems: Drivers of Vulnerability, Entry Points for
Resilience Building? E. Lisa F. Schipper 2.4 The deep roots of nightmares
Andrew Crabtree Section 3 Unequal Risks: Staging and Reducing Disaster Risk
3.1 Celebrity Culture, Entertainment Values ...and Disaster David Alexander
3.2 Disaster Management Culture in Bangladesh: The Enrolment of Local
Knowledge by Decision Makers Brian Cook 3.3 Cultures Role in Disaster Risk
Reduction: Combining Knowledge Systems on Small Island Developing States
(SIDS) Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard, Jessica Mercer, Kate Crowley, Sarah Marsh,
and Julie Morin 3.4 Culture, Gender and Disaster: From Vulnerability to
Capacities JC Gaillard, Maureen Fordham and Kristinne Sanz 3.5 A Culture of
Resilience and Preparedness the Last Mile case study Tsunami Risk Padang
City, Indonesia Joern Birkmann Neysa Setiadi and Georg Fiedler 3.6
Participative Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment and the Example of
the Tao People (Taiwan) Martin Voss and Leberecht Funk