When Disasters Come Home: Making and Manipulating Emergencies in the West

by David Keen

Book Overview

In the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are 'coming home' with a vengeance. From global warming to migration crises, from assaults on democracy to Covid-19 and the fall-out of war in Ukraine - the West is in the grip of multiple, overlapping crises that keep its populations in a state of perpetual fear and distraction.

Disasters should be awakening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509550631
• ISBN13: 9781509550630
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"