Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazards in the Philippines

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Psychology Press, 2003 - Всего страниц: 232
In this fascinating and comprehensive study, Greg Bankoff traces the history of natural hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonisers to the 'Calamitous Nineties', and assesses the effectiveness of the relief mechanisms that have evolved to cope with these occurrences. He also examines the correlation between this history of natural disasters and the social hierarchy within Filipino society. The constant threat of disaster has been integrated into the schema of daily life to such an extent that a 'culture of disaster' has been formed.
 

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Vulnerability as western discourse
5
Tables
15
Environment and hazard in Southeast Asia
18
A history of hazard in the Philippines
31
The costs of hazard in the contemporary Philippines
61
The politics of disaster management and relief
83
The politics of disaster
91
Debt and disaster
102
The economics of red tides
106
The social order and the El NiñoSouthern Oscillation
123
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127
Cultures of disaster
152
Hazard as a frequent life experience
179
References
200
Index
225
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Greg Bankoff is Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at the University of Auckland. His previous books include Crime Society and the State in Nineteenth-Century Philippines (Hawaii University Press: 1996).

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