Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

Published by Berghahn Books 2019

Disaster Upon Disaster

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

Edited by: Susanna M. Hoffma and Roberto E. Barrios

Volume 2 in the series Catastrophes in Context

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203462

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About this book

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.

Author / Editor information

Susanna M. Hoffman is author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, including The Angry Earth 1 & 2 and Catastrophe and Culture, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group at the Society for Applied Anthropology, is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences, and was the first recipient of the Aegean Initiative Fulbright concerning the Greek and Turkish earthquakes.

Roberto E. Barrios is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During the last twenty years, he has conducted ethnographies of disaster recovery in Honduras, Mexico, New Orleans, Houston, and Southern Illinois. His work focuses on the inherent assumptions about the nature of communities and people embedded in disaster recovery policy, and how disaster survivors interpret, reconfigure, and sometimes resist these assumptions. He is author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction and has published various articles in the journals Disasters, Annual Review of Anthropology, Identities, and Human Organization.

Susanna M. Hoffman is author, co-author, and editor of twelve books, including The Angry Earth 1 & 2 and Catastrophe and Culture, two ethnographic films, and over forty articles. She initiated the Risk and Disaster Thematic Interest Group at the Society for Applied Anthropology, is the founder and chair of the Risk and Disaster Commission for the International Union of Anthropology and Ethnographic Sciences, and was the first recipient of the Aegean Initiative Fulbright concerning the Greek and Turkish earthquakes.

Reviews

“Disaster upon Disaster is written in an accessible language and admirably avoids most of the features of academic discourse … and humanitarian … that produce and maintain gaps between academic anthropologists and their applied colleagues. Readers are presented with a fairly wide range of theoretical approaches, and the authors make a number of concrete suggestions for improvements.” • Anthropology Book Forum

“This book took me on a journey that I must admit was not always comfortable. It challenged me to think more locally… I might not agree with it in every way, but It did what every good academic volume should it made me think more deeply. Thanks to those who were involved in making it.” • Recovery Diva Blog

“The contributors, individually and collectively, do not merely point to or describe the gaps between knowledge, policy, and practice—they build sturdy bridges across them… I highly recommend this book”. • A.J. Faas, San Jose State University

“An important contribution to the applied anthropological research on disasters, for it brings together experiences and reflections of various key players in the field—anthropologists, practitioners (e.g. local and international NGO leaders, officials of various functions, and freelance consultants), and other constituents.” • Qiaoyun Zhang, Shanghai University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. Defining Disaster upon Disaster: Why Risk Prevention and Disaster Response So Often Fail Susanna M. Hoffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Illuminating the Fissures: Suppositions, Realities, Agendas, and Execution
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 1. Unwieldy Disasters: Engaging the Multiple Gaps and Connections That Make Catastrophes Roberto E. Barrios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 2. Advocacy and Accomplishment: Contrasting Challenges to Successful Disaster Risk Management Terry Jeggle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 3. Natural Hazard Events into Disasters: The Gaps between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice as It Affects the Built Environment through Development Stephen Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 4. Humanitarian Response: Ideals Meet Reality Adam Koons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 5. Disaster Theory versus Practice? It Is a Long Rocky Road: A Practitioner’s View from the Ground Jane Murphy Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part II. Situations and Expositions: Plights, Problems, and Quandaries
Chapter 6. Slow-Onset Disaster: Climate Change and the Gaps between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice Shirley J Fiske and Elizabeth Marino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 7. Disrupting Gendered Outcomes: Addressing Disaster Vulnerability through Stakeholder Participation Brenda D. Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 8. Resettlement for Disaster Risk Reduction: Global Knowledge, Local Application Anthony Oliver-Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 9. From Nuclear Things to Things Nuclear: Minding the Gap at the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Nexus in Post-Fallout Fukushima Ryo Morimoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Chapter 10. “Haitians Need to Be Patient”: Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake Mark Schuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Part III. Revamping Apparatus and Outcome
Chapter 11. The Scope and Importance of Anthropology and Its Core Concept of Culture in Closing the Disaster Knowledge to Policy and Practice Gap Susanna M. Hoffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter 12. Engaged: Applying the Anthropology of Disaster to Practitioner Settings and Policy Creation Katherine E. Browne, Elizabeth Marino, Heather Lazrus and Keely Maxwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Chapter 13. Future Matter Matters: Disasters as a (Potential) Vehicle for Social Change—It’s About Time Ann Bergman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 354
Keywords: illumination of disjunctions in field; disaster reduction; academic and expert knowledge; policies and practices of agencies; driving factors; risk construction; complexity of resettlement; importance of peoples culture; suppositions; realities; agendas; executions

eBook

Published: October 3, 2019
ISBN: 9781789203462