Horowitz, Andy

Critical disaster studies

by Horowitz, Andy, Remes, Jacob A.C

fromCritical studies in risk and disaster

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This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions-and they shape the way peop…

Katrina: a history, 1915-2015

by Horowitz, Andy

0 Type: Book

"The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons learned from previous floods, corporate and government decision making, and the political economy of the United States at large. New Orleans's history is…