| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Disasters and Changes in Society and Politics: Contemporary Perspectives from Italy -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- An Overview of the Book: Beyond Conventional Approaches to Disaster Recovery -- References -- PART I Making Sense of Post-disaster Changes in Society and Space -- 1 Risk Perception, Climate Change and Disasters of the Alpine Environments -- Introduction -- The state of emergency: the construction of the wall and the people's disagreements |
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Local communities: 'us' against 'them' -- Risk perception and invisibility -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Isolation of the Island -- Introduction: a volcanic island is a seismic island -- Casamicciola and the earthquake -- The latency time after the disaster -- The three post-seismic phases -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Permanent Red Zone -- Introduction -- Inhabiting disasters -- Case study and methodology -- The Alto Nera: a paradigmatic and representative case study -- Methodological note on ethnography -- Inhabiting post-earthquake central Italy -- Return to utopia |
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Post-disaster material culture -- Inside the interior -- Inhabiting and spatiality -- Square villages and street villages -- Mount Bove and us -- Visso is its own square -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 4 Adaptive Disaster Memories -- Introduction -- The end of the world -- Before and after -- Reconstruction -- I was not there, but I remember -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- PART II Post-disaster Politics -- 5 The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Ladder of Power -- Introduction -- Global crisis, local responses -- Sentimental connections -- Locality and meanings |
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Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6 Afar from Vesuvius but Still at Risk -- Introduction: The urban enclosure of the volcano -- Emergency planning -- Volcanic risk in the 'yellow zone' -- The Agro Nocerino-Sarnese among cement, ash and mud -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 7 Local Communities as Strangers In-Between -- The disaster: ghosts in the crater -- Reconstruction and abandonment -- Aleatory politics and the production of scenarios -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART III Disasters and Conflicting Knowledges -- 8 Under the Smart City Paradigm -- Introduction |
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Methodology -- Smart city: a discourse -- Smart city paradigm as neoliberal city model -- Is SC a paradigm? -- The reified city and the laboratory-city: representations -- Recovering or repairing? -- Post-disaster L'Aquila: three parallel reconstruction processes -- L'Aquila smart city: national inter-governmental and local level projects -- Even at local level: smarter is better -- The impact of SC model on L'Aquila reconstruction -- A techno-centred transformation of a territory -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 9 Expertise Versus Aspiration -- Introduction |
| Summary |
This book brings a critical perspective to post-disaster reconstruction in Italy, and the sometimes radical changes in individual and collective behaviours that persist following such events. Considering the impacts of climate change and COVID-19, this edited book will stimulate debate on policy and practice in disaster recovery |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Disasters as social phenomena |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2024) |
| Subject |
Disaster relief -- Italy
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Disasters -- Italy
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Natural disasters -- Italy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Forino, Giuseppe, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781529226775 |
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1529226775 |
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