The Political Biography of an Earthquake
Autor Edward Simpsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2014
Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things.
Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a "natural" disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote?
As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780199359929
ISBN-10: 019935992X
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 165 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN-10: 019935992X
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 165 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press (UK)