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The Invention of Disaster

- Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability

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This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138805620
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 252
  • Udgivet:
  • 31. december 2021
  • Størrelse:
  • 241x160x24 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 576 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 2. december 2024
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This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.

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