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.

The book is a huge contribution to disaster anthropology and sociology, public policies, international relations and risk communication because it widens the range of approaches connected to the theme. It introduces rich and complex analyses stemming from case studies, which allow us to compare how prevention devices, participation and reconstruction are used in multiple ways by actors facing disaster. (Marta de Araujo Pinheiro, Contexto Internacional, Vol. 39 (1), January-April, 2017)

Autorentext
Sandrine Revet, CERI-Sciences Po, France Julien Langumier, ARCRA Mara Benadusi, Catania University, Italy Laura Centemeri, Aix-Marseille Université/CNRS, France Nicolas Dodier, École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociale and Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, France Marc Elie, École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociale Frédéric Keck, CNRS, France Susann Ullberg, CRISMART, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden

Inhalt
PART I: ANTICIPATION, PREPAREDNESS AND CONTROVERSIES 1. Governing by Hazard: Controlling Mudslides and Promoting Tourism in the Mountains above Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), 1966-1977, Marc Elie 2. Monitoring Animals, Preparing Humans: An Ethnographical Study of Avian Influenza, Frédérick Keck PART II: PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION 3. Cultivating Communities after Disaster: A Whirlwind of Generosity on the Coasts of Sri Lanka, Mara Benadusi 4. A Critical Look at the 'Risk culture': France's 'Plan Rhône'; Julien Langumier PART III: ISSUES OF MEMORY 5. Memory and methodology: Translocal and Transtemporal Fieldwork in Post-Disaster Santa Fe (Argentina), Susann Ullberg, 6. Laura Centemeri, Investigating the 'Discrete Memory' of the Seveso Disaster in Italy Postscript: Thinking (by way of) Disaster; Nicolas Dodier