People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a »correct« interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different truths lead to people seeing mismanagement and disinformation. The volcanic crisis of El Hierro shows how rivalling interpretations amongst affected islanders, the media, sciences, and disaster response institutions cause great social tensions and scepticism towards scientific information. Thus, to fully understand disaster risk, the focus must shift to the rifts between established convictions and the individuals' creativity to overcome them, taking into account their embeddedness in various fields of practice, each with their own rationales and ruptures.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 278
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 February 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837655124
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Benedikt M. Orlowski, born in 1979, works as a research associate at the Department for Urban Research and Statistics in Nürnberg. The human geographer did his doctorate at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and is a member of the working group on »Cultures and Disasters« at the local Institute for Geography. In 2015, he co-edited a volume on Cultures and Disasters which has become a seminal book in its field. His research focus is on human geography, particularly the geography of risk and cross-disciplinary üapproaches to volcanic risk, and risk and the media.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 9
Abstract 11
1. Preface: A Volcano Named 'Cabrón' 13
2. Introduction: The Seismo-Volcanic Crisis of El Hierro 17
3. The Study Area: El Hierro, Canary Islands 25
4. A Scientist's View on Volcanic Risks on El Hierro, Canary Islands 45
5. Culturally Borne Disasters 65
6. Geography of Risk Inspired by a Pragmatist Notion of Praxis 95
7. Research Design and Methodological Approach 111
8. Disaster Experiences in Rivalling Fields of Practice 137
9. Conclusion: Disaster Experiences Emerging from Rivalling Fields of Practice 235
References 241
Illustration Index 265
Index of Tables 267
Abbreviations 269
List of Interviews 271
