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Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction (Globalization And The Environment)

By Nandini Gunewardena , Mark Schuller , De Alexander Waal , Sara E. Alexander , Gregory Button , Bettina Damiani , Antonio Donini , Elizabeth Guillette , Wahneema Lubiano , Anthony Oliver-Smith , Adolph Reed Jr , Anna Belinda Sandoval Girón , Susan Stonich

Book information

Publisher
AltaMira Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0759111030, 9780759111035
LCC
HV553 .C23 2008
Open Library ID
OL10896940M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3115596 bytes)
Pages
288\278
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have prepared for and responded to recent cataclysms. The book's principal focus is the increasing trend to rely on the private sector to deal with natural disasters and other forms of large-scale devastation, from hurricanes and tsunamis to civil wars and industrial accidents. Called "disaster capitalism" by its critics, the tendency to contract private interests to solve massive, urgent public problems may be inevitable but is extremely problematic—especially with respect to peoples who need help the most. Can private relief groups give the highest priority to potential and actual victims of large disasters, for example, if that means devoting fewer resources to protecting tourism and other profitable industries? The high-profile contributors to this volume straightforwardly tackle such timely and difficult questions of great public concern.

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