Disaster studies is faced with a fascinating anomaly: frequently it claims to be critical and
innovative, as suggested by the so‐called vulnerability paradigm that emerged more than 40 …

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 …

This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most
existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters …

Despite some 50 years of research, relatively little is known about how disasters in conflict
areas are created and discursively framed, and how information on them is publicly …

Disasters seem destined to be major issues of academic enquiry in the new century if for no
other reason than that they are inseparably linked to questions of environmental …

This book analyses the making of the international world of 'natural'disasters by its
professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the …

Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the
theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur …

Are conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks
and riots, the same kind of social crises as those generated by natural and technological …

As an historian whose interests lie in both contemporary disaster practice as well the
historical roots of vulnerability, I have become increasingly intrigued by the manner in which …

One of the most prominent scholars in disaster sociology recently admitted that for more than
four decades he has “struggled with how to define and conceptualize the term …