Negotiating Disasters: Politics, Representation, Meanings (Paperback)

Contents: Ute Luig: Negotiating Disasters: An Overview ? Michael Bollig: Social-Ecological Change and the Changing Structure of Risk, Risk Management and Resilience in a Pastoral Community in Northwestern Namibia ? Ingo Haltermann: The Perception of Natural Hazards in the Context of Human (In-)security ? Elisio Macamo/Dieter Neubert: ≪Flood Disasters≫. A Sociological Analysis of Local Perception and Management of Extreme Events Based on Examples from Mozambique, Germany, and the USA ? Arne Harms: Squatters on a Shrinking Coast: Environmental Hazards, Memory and Social Resilience in the Ganges Delta ? Manfred Zaumseil/Johana Prawitasari-Hadiyono: Researching Coping Mechanisms in Response to Natural Disasters: The Earthquake in Java, Indonesia (2006) ?
Martin Sokefeld: The Attabad Landslide and the Politics of Disaster in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan ? Pascale Schild: Representations and Practices of ≪Home≫ in the Context of the 2005 Earthquake and Reconstruction Process in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir ? Edward Simpson: The Anthropology of a ≪Disaster Boom≫ Economy in Western India ? Axel Schafer: Lightning, Thunderstorms, Hail: Conception, Religious Interpretations and Social Practice among the Quechua People of the South Peruvian Andes ? Dorothea E. Schulz: In the Shadow of an Unreconciled Nature: Muslim Practices of Mourning and/as Social Reproduction in Uganda ? Brigitte Vettori: Negotiating Culture: Indigenous Communities on the Nicobar and Andaman Islands as Focal Points in the Post-tsunami Media Coverage 2004/05.