The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

by 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 universal in understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032162724
• ISBN13: 9781032162720
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"