Disasters and Politics: Materials, Experiments, Preparedness (Paperback)

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: disasters as politics - politics as disasters (Michael Guggenheim) Section 1: Materials: Ontologies 1. Geo-politics and the disaster of the Anthropocene (Nigel Clark) 2. Disasters as meshworks: Migratory birds and the enlivening of Donana's toxic spill (Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Francisco Tirado and Manuel Tironi) 3. Misrecognizing tsunamis: ontological politics and cosmopolitical challenges in early warning systems (Ignacio Farias) Section 2: Experiments: Governance 4. Producing space, tracing authority: mapping the 2007 San Diego wildfires (Katrina Petersen) 5. Atmospheres of indagation: disasters and the politics of excessiveness (Manuel Tironi) 6. Technologies of recovery: plans, practices and entangled politics in disaster (Lucy Easthope and Maggie Mort) Section 3: Preparedness: Anticipation 7. Creating a secure network: the 2001 anthrax attacks and the transformation of postal security (Ryan Ellis) 8. Concrete governmentality: shelters and the transformations of preparedness (Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdliekova) 9. Anticipating oil: the temporal politics of a disaster yet to come (Gisa Weszkalnys) 10. Afterword: on the topologies and temporalities of disaster (Mike Michael) Notes on contributors Index