Hazardous Future : Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk, Hardc...

Description: Hazardous Future : Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk, Hardcover by Gil, Isabel Capeloa (EDT); Wulf, Christoph (EDT), ISBN 3110406527, ISBN-13 9783110406528, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Anthropologists, historians, cultural critics, media specialists, psychologists, educators, geographers, and other scholars from Europe, the US, and Asia provide 18 essays on the representation of natural disasters and the recovery of affected communities in different societies, considering how they deal with a disaster and the social relevance of this strategy, the metaphors in different media representations and whether they are culturally specific or intercultural, and how this contributes to the creation of a literature of disaster. They discuss whether disaster is an anthropological condition, including how they are evolutionary drivers of world history, the role of images in 9/11, tragedy as the origin of catastrophe theory, the role played by culture in the management of disaster, the relationship between the media and the construction of citizenship, the role of social capital, and the earthquake in Japan and the Fukushima disaster from a psychotherapeutic perspective and in terms of the role of the loss of place. The second section addresses the mediazation of disaster, including Chernobyl, risk in Java/Indonesia, images of disaster in Naoko Tanaka's Die Scheinwerferin, disaster in Gary Hill's video art Incidence of Catastrophe, televized tragedy as a genre, disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend, the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media, the portrayal of Hurricane Katrina in Treme, and photos of the Big Flood of 1953. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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