In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Deborah R. Coen is interviewed on her recent book, The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter.
Simpson explores how both memory and forgetting are central to what happens after disasters.
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
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Kambe analyzes the masculinist rhetoric of Japanese male writers and intellectuals’ reactions to the 2011 earthquake.
Contextualizing Disaster presents “highly visible” disasters as well as “slow and hidden” disasters, and how different parties involved in recovery processes contextualize them.
