Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centered on the notion of repairing.

Autorentext

Laura Centemeri is Senior Researcher in Environmental Sociology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS-EHESS), France.

Sezin Topçu is Senior Researcher in Science and Technology Studies at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS-EHESS), France.

J. Peter Burgess is Professor and Director of the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk at École Normale Supérieure, France.

Inhalt

Introduction: Recovery, Resilience and Repairing - For a Non-Reductionist Approach to the Complexity of Post-Disaster Situations Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess Part I: Repairing Slow Disasters 1. The Economy of Compensation and the Struggle for Reparation: The case of Formosa Plastics in Taiwan Paul Jobin 2. Repairing the Ir-repairable: 'Geo-biological' Recovery of Environments after a Nuclear Disaster Sezin Topçu 3. After the (Green) Revolution Comes (Ecological) Restoration: Scientists and Peasants in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil Daniel Delatin Rodrigues Part II: Everyday Life, Justice and Memories in Recovery after Disasters 4. Repairing as Struggle for Narrative Justice. The Dam Failure of Vega de Tera, Spain (1959-2019) Santiago Gorostiza and Marco Armiero 5. Preparing for Future Pandemics and Repairing Vulnerable Environments: Consequences of the 1997 Bird Flu Outbreak in Hong Kong Frédéric Keck 6. Broken Techno-Ecological Systems and Art as Reparative Gestures **Line Marie Thorsen 7. Plurality of Temporalities, Complexity and Contingency in Repairing after Dam Failures in Minas Gerais Francis Chateauraynaud and Josquin Debaz Part III: The Role of Law in Repairing Environments 8. A Green Criminological Approach to Environmental Victimisation and Reparation. A Case for Environmental Restorative Justice Lorenzo Natali and Matthew Hall 9. Reenact, Commemorate and Make Amends after Storm Xynthia Through a Judicial Dispositif Sandrine Revet 10. Victims and the Ecologies of Reparation Dispositifs in the Contaminated Growth Hormone Case: Comparative Perspectives on Recovery after a Health Disaster Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier 11. Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective - between theory and practice Laura Centemeri, J. Peter Burgess and Sezin Topçu