Disasters and catastrophes
Résumé
The chapter retraces the birth and development of disaster research in the social sciences and critically discusses the main frameworks that have emerged and driven disaster studies over the past 50 years: vulnerability and, more recently resilience and preparedness. Where the vulnerability approach revealed since the 1970s the role of social inequalities in explaining disasters, the paradigms of resilience and preparedness reflect the increasing pervasiveness of the theme of the catastrophe that has accompanied the emergence of the Anthropocene. They sustain an ongoing process of re-technicization and de-politicization in disaster research. Against this tendency, critical approaches to the study of disasters investigate the structural link between disasters and capitalism and between capitalism and the ecological crisis. The final section identifies some emerging issues: the growing intertwining between disasters and technological innovation, the generalization of the argument of exceptionality and the emergence of forms of mobilizations motivated by 'climate catastrophism'.
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