Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk and climate change
Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Purpose and method; Instrumental reason and neoliberal governmentality: towards an analytical framework; Chapter outline; References; 1 A genealogy of disaster risk assessment and management; Introduction; The development discourse; Sustainable development; The Pressure and Release and Household Access Models; Institutionalising a 'lack of progress with DRR'; The idiom of risk assessment and management; The risk society and risk-based decision making; Conclusion; Note; References
2 South Africa's disaster risk profileIntroduction; Overview; Informality; Urban flooding; Communicable disease; Mining accidents, sinkholes and acid mine water; Rural hazards; Conclusion; Note; References; 3 Writing structural violence: conceptualising ordinary South African being; Introduction; The dialectics of transition; Segregation; Education; Employment; Housing; Health and hunger; Interpersonal violence; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Modes of institutionalisation; Introduction; Disaster management in South Africa: a political economy
Making higher education 'relevant': a political ontologyConclusion; Notes; References; 5 Knowledge production; Introduction; Academic knowledge; Multidisciplinarity; Legislation as theory; Consultancy and knowledge production; Legislative compliance; Multidisciplinarity; Science; Community-based disaster risk management; Conclusion; Note; References; 6 Multiple dystopias; Introduction; Neo-compradors; Anomie; Conclusion; Note; References; Conclusion: (un)framing risk as a techno-political instrument; Summary; The professional is political: implications; References; Index
