Contextualizing Disaster

Contextualizing DisasterContextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete

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the book will be of interest to philosophy

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It also provides persuasive commentary on the inherent plight of other Third World countries plagued with similar legacies and pre-revolutionary conditions

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