The Invention of Disaster : Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability - 9781032162720

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.

• | : JC Gaillard (University of Auckland, NZ.)
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 09, 2023
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1032162724
• | ISBN-13: 9781032162720