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

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: What is a disaster?
	Power and knowledge
	Understanding disaster and the Enlightenment legacy
	Disaster risk reduction and the project of modernity
	The hegemony of Western discourses
	On representation and asymmetric ignorance
	Towards a postcolonial disaster studies agenda
	Our book and its approach
	Notes
Chapter 2: A genealogy of disaster studies
	On the origins of modern disaster studies
	A myriad of cognate concepts
	Dominant understanding and the hazard paradigm
	Alternative interpretation and the vulnerability paradigm
	From vulnerability and suffering to capacities and resilience
	Dialectical tradition and the Western legacy
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Unfulfilled promise of a paradigm shift
	A brief epistemology of a paradigm shift
	Have we risen to the challenge?
	On the disaster ‘gold rush’
	Perpetuating the Western hegemony in disaster studies
	The instruments of the hegemony of Western scholarship
	On conduct in a growing field of scholarship
	Notes
Chapter 4: The quest for pantometry
	What kind of evidence for what kind of measurement?
		Economic reductionism and the hazard paradigm
		Anthropological particularism and the vulnerability paradigm
		Participatory pluralism and the capacities spin-off approach
	Measuring resilience in practice: a brief review of methods and tools
		Economic reductionism: indexes and other quantitative measurements of resilience
		Anthropological particularism: qualitative measurement of resilience
		Towards participatory pluralism: toolkits and characteristics of resilience
	Inherent strengths and limits of the method(s) and the search for compromise
	On Western heritage and the quest for pantometry
	Can resilience be understood?
	Notes
Chapter 5: The governmentality of disaster
	Governmentality as the modern art of government
	Asserting sovereignty through disaster risk reduction
	Discipline and regulation in disaster risk reduction
	The dispositif of disaster risk reduction
		Global arrangements and the hegemony of international agreements
		The governmental infrastructure and mechanisms
		The other dimensions of the dispositif of disaster risk reduction
	On the durability of the governmentality of disaster
	Power and knowledge in disaster risk reduction
	Notes
Chapter 6: Climate change and the ultimate challenge of modernity
	Climate change and the resurgence of the hazard paradigm
	On the governmentality of climate change
	The future is now in Kiribati
	Climate change and Western imperialism
	Climate change and the demise of the project of modernity?
	Notes
Chapter 7: Exclusive inclusion and the imperative of participation
	On the ethos and principles of inclusion in disaster risk reduction
	From theory to the practice of exclusive… inclusion
	On categories, intersectionality and power relations
	Myths and realities: of communities and local knowledge
		On the myth of community
		On romance and local/indigenous/traditional knowledge
	Process, means and the dilemma of accountability
	Is inclusion culturally ethical?
	Notes
Chapter 8: Gender in disaster beyond men and women
	Gender beyond men and women
	Bakla and disasters in the Philippines
	Waria and disasters in Indonesia
	Fa’afafine and disasters in Samoa
	Gender minorities in disaster and disaster risk reduction
	Beyond men and women in disaster
	Fostering the inclusion of gender in disaster risk reduction
	Notes
Chapter 9: Power and resistance in disaster risk reduction
	Prisons and power à l'état nu
	Prisons in disasters
	Prisons in the Philippines
	Responses of people in prison to disasters in the Philippines
		Layer 1: The individual level
		Layer 2: The karancho/kasalo level
		Layer 3: The cell level
		Layer 4: The brigada and pangkalahatan levels
		The outside networks
	Culture, ‘inmate society’ and disasters
	On resistance, disaster and disaster risk reduction
	Beyond Western governmentality and disaster risk reduction
	Notes
Chapter 10: The invention of disaster
	The invention of disaster
	From concept to object: the legitimisation of the invention
	On pluralism and the petits récits of disaster
	Re/constructing disaster and postcolonial disaster studies
	A call for dialogue and alliance
	Utopia or foreseeable future?
	Notes
Chapter 11: Postscript: Where to from here?
	Note
References
Index