Memory and Earthquake Forgetfulness in India
Simpson explores how both memory and forgetting are central to what happens after disasters.
earthquakes
To Whom Does the Story Belong? Earthquake Memories, Narratives, and Policy in Italy
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
About this issue
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Content
Representing Disaster with Resignation and Nostalgia: Japanese Men’s Responses to the 2011 Earthquake
Kambe analyzes the masculinist rhetoric of Japanese male writers and intellectuals’ reactions to the 2011 earthquake.
Contextualizing Disaster
Contextualizing Disaster presents "highly visible" disasters as well as "slow and hidden" disasters, and how different parties involved in recovery processes contextualize them.
Fearless Planet
Will Gadd hosts this Discovery Channel series exploring the history and formation of some of the Earth's extreme landscapes.
The Great Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of 1964
A massive earthquake of magnitude 9.2 around Prince William Sound, Alaska, creates landslides, avalanches and tsunami waves, destroying the environment in each respective pathway.
Regions:
Volcanic Eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
The sixth biggest Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupts and disrupts air-travel around the globe.
Regions:
"Post-Disaster Migrations and Returns in Sicily: The 1908 Messina Earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake"
This article explores the relationship between disasters and the population movements in two case studies: The 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 Belice Valley earthquake.
Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.