Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies...
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Author: Susanna M. Hoffma
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Language: English
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Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice by Hoffma, Susanna M.

Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

$125.33

Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

$125.33
Author: Susanna M. Hoffma
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.



Author: Susanna M. Hoffma
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 10/03/2019
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781789206487


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2020

About the Author

Roberto E. Barrios is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During the last twenty years, he has conducted ethnographies of disaster recovery in Honduras, Mexico, New Orleans, Houston, and Southern Illinois. His work focuses on the inherent assumptions about the nature of communities and people embedded in disaster recovery policy, and how disaster survivors interpret, reconfigure, and sometimes resist these assumptions. He is author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction and has published various articles in the journals Disasters, Annual Review of Anthropology, Identities, and Human Organization.


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