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Title Learning and calamities : practices, interpretations, patterns / edited by Heike Egner, Marén Schorch, and Martin Voss
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages .)
Series Routledge studies in environment, culture, and society ; 3
Routledge studies in environment, culture, and society ; 3.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Can Societies Learn from Calamities?; PART I Opening the Fields of Learning and Calamities; 2 Learning from Disasters in an Unsafe World: Considerations from a Psychoanalytical Ethnological Perspective; 3 Learning about Disasters from Animals; 4 Beyond Experiential Learning in Disaster and Development Communication; PART II Learning from History?; 5 "The Monster Swallows You": Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500-2000
6 A Disaster in Slow Motion: The Smoke Menace in Urban-Industrial Britain7 Historia Magistra Vitae, as the Saying Goes: Why Societies Do Not Necessarily Learn from Past Disasters; PART III Educational Concepts for Disaster Preparedness; 8 Using a Spare-Time University for Disaster Risk Reduction Education; 9 Communicating Actionable Risk: The Challenge of Communicating Risk to Motivate Preparedness in the Absence of Calamity; 10 Critical Reflections on Disaster Prevention Education; PART IV Organizational Patterns of Interpretation and Practices of Learning
11 Normalization and Its Discontents: Organizational Learning from Disaster12 Analyses of Natural Disasters and Their Contribution to Changes in Natural Hazard Management in Switzerland; 13 How Not to Learn: Resilience in the Study of Disaster; PART V Societal Patterns of Interpretation and Practices of Learning; 14 When Push Comes to Shove: The Framing of Need in Disaster Relief Efforts; 15 Reduced Learning Processes Due to Biopolitical Patterns of Interpretation: Michel Foucault and the Contamination Disaster
16 Science versus Metaphysics: The Importance of Everyday Life Experience for the Interpretation of DisasterPART VI Closing; 17 Learning and Calamities-What Have We Learned?: Steps Towards an Integrative Framework; Contributors; Index
Summary "It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster- ) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is hardly any learning and, if so, that it rarely lasts more than one or two generations. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities happens at all, and if learning takes place, under which conditions it can be achieved and what would be required to ensure that learned cognitive and practical knowledge will endure on a societal level. The contributions of this book include various fields of scientific research: history, sociology, geography, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, development studies and political studies, as well as disaster research and disaster risk reduction research"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Crisis management.
Disasters.
Communities of practice.
Organizational learning.
disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Communities of practice.
Crisis management.
Disasters.
Organizational learning.
Form Electronic book
Author Egner, Heike, 1963- editor.
Schorch, Marén, editor
Voss, Martin, editor
ISBN 1134475810
9781134475810
9780203794678
0203794672