Disaster Research – Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives
Edited by Rasmus Dahlberg, Olivier Rubin and Morten Thanning Vendelo
This book brings together in one multidisciplinary volume the key approaches in disaster research. It is structured thematicallyaround key approaches to disaster research from a wide range of academic disciplines including the law of disasters, disaster historiography, disaster politics, disasters as culture, anthropology of disaster, organizational theory of disaster management, and disaster psychology.
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Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises Everyday Politics of Crisis Response
Edited by Professor Dorothea Hilhorst
Humanitarian crises, whether they result from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse are usually perceived as complete breaks from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. This book questions this assumption, arguing that there are both continuities and discontinuitiesbetween crisis and normality. Using a wealth of international case studies from a team of leading experts, the book examines what this means for the social and political dynamics of institutional response, international policy and aid interventions in crises.
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Human Security and Natural Disasters
Edited by Paul Bacon, Christopher Hobson and Robin Cameron.
This book develops human security not only through extending it to natural disasters, but also by demonstrating how it can be developed by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. To date, the interdisciplinary dimension of human security has not received sufficient attention. The book demonstrates the value of drawing on a wide range of voices and examines the vulnerability of social groups and communities in the event of a disaster, and how they collectively empower themselves to prevent, respond to and recover from disasters.
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Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster – Responding to the 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
Edited by Paul Bacon, Christopher Hobson
The book identifies the many different forms of human insecurity that were produced or exacerbated within Japan by the triple disaster. Each chapter adds to the contemporary literature by identifying the vulnerability of Japanese social groups and communities, and examining how they collectively seek to prevent, respond to and recover from disaster. Emphasis is given to analysis of the more encouraging signs of human empowerment that have occurred. Contributors draw on a wide range of perspectives, from disciplines such as: disaster studies, environmental studies, gender studies, international relations, Japanese studies, philosophy and sociology.
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The Paradoxes of Aid Work – Passionate Professionals
by Silke Roth
While the success and failure of development cooperation and humanitarian aid have found extensive coverage in the academic literature and the public debate, studies that address the experience of aid workers are still rare. This book explores the life worlds of people working in aid and analyses the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and what impact aid work has on the life-courses of aid workers, including their relationships with friends, family and partners.
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The New Humanitarians in International Practice – Emerging Actors and Contested Principles
Edited by Zeynep Sezgin, Dennis Dijkzeul
This book sheds light on why and how new humanitarian actors engage in humanitarian action and how their humanitarian activities are perceived in their (transnational) organisational environment. It provides detailed international and empirical comparisons between the ‘new’ humanitarians and traditional humanitarian actors, in particular those which focus on the relative level of commitment to humanitarian principles. It thus elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of humanitarian actors.
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