ABSTRACT
This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.
The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and original empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters.
This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
part I|62 pages
Repairing slow disasters
chapter 1|24 pages
The economy of compensation and struggle for reparation
chapter 2|18 pages
Repairing the ir-repairable
chapter 3|18 pages
After the (Green) Revolution comes (ecological) restoration
part II|77 pages
Everyday life, justice and memories in recovery after disasters
chapter 4|23 pages
Repairing as struggle for narrative justice
chapter 5|15 pages
Preparing for future pandemics and repairing vulnerable environments
part III|70 pages
The role of law in repairing environments