...Chika Watanabe Abstract There is a growing trend to prepare children for future disasters. A Japanese nonprofit organization has developed an event called Iza! Kaeru Caravan , which includes games that teach children and their families how to survive disasters, from earthquakes to floods. Many...

... (disaster, security, energy, and transportation) across four cities of the global South (Bogotá, Karachi, Accra, and Johannesburg). In each city, uncertainty is produced by historical conditions and productive of future possibilities. Our opening reference to Calvino’s Octavia prompted us to examine...

...Howard S. Becker Disasters highlight the way societies allocate resources for expected troubles, a more variable process than it might appear. Similar processes occur in the formation of collections, both personal ones such as books and shoes and the more general ones that characterize societies...

... of these respatializations on New Orleans as a place. The images in the essay provide a textured look at the way political economies can be visualized not only geographically but also as part of the ordinary experience of everyday life in a city still and always posited as “recovering” from hurricanes and other disasters...

... by a heterogeneous movement of corporations as well as nonprofit organizations, they attempt to respond to poverty and disaster through ethical design. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 I thank Carlo Caduff and Tobias Rees for organizing the Biopower Today conference held at the University...

... for private-sector market solutions to entrenched inequality and need in the United States, this article offers insights on another way that poverty is created and sustained. Nearly six years after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, many residents are still trying to recover, while others have...

..., brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style...

...Craig Calhoun Duke University Press 2006 D O X A AT L A R G E The Privatization of Risk Craig Calhoun The Hurricane Katrina disaster shocked Americans, at least...

... disasters in Somalia, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere, he said, but never expected to see images like these in the United States: widespread looting, hungry refugees, corpses left on the street to decompose. Toward the end of the interview, Rose...

.... For the other 99.8 percent of Americans, the disaster was a media experience with lasting implica- tions for the public opinion and action. The aftermath of Katrina and its media experience point to a series of visual limitations that traditional...

... through the Apocalypse: Preparing Children for Mass Disasters in Japan and Chile,” Watanabe analyzes neighborhood disaster-preparedness events where kids play games that teach them evacuation procedures and survival skills. This ludic arrangement is a tacit acknowledgment that disasters are in the future...

.... Similarly, Adams examines disaster capitalism as a process whereby catastrophes, and their disproportionate impact on poor communities, are turned into market opportunities for profit. This, as Elyachar notes, is the effort to mine...

.... 2016 adaptation cities climate change disaster relocation Most people say, “I’m not leaving.” You know, it’s what Americans do: they wave a flag and say, “We are strong, we’ll persevere, we’ll build it back, we’ll be better, we’ll be stronger.” [But] we knew different. We knew different...

... like a disaster. For this word, too, has a unique astrological ancestry: “Through a Middle French transformation of the Italian term disastro , which means ‘ill-starred’ or ‘bad-planet,’ it in turn has origins in Latin ( astrum ) and still earlier in Greek ( astron )” ( Gordon and Gordon 2009 : 7...

... disasters infrastructure innovation resilience disasters In the fall of 2014, Rebuild by Design, an initiative of President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, convened an international working group of experts to advance a global conversation on resiliency, design, and politics...

... asylum seekers. 11 Fernando offers these useful formulations in the context of his reflections on the pathologizing characterization of starving disaster victims looking for food and other necessaries as “looters.” 12 Most recently, the “rape epidemic” tag attaches overwhelmingly...

... goals, he clearly raised climate change to the top of the political agenda. Despite a cloud of uncertainty hanging over city hall—Petro’s opponents tirelessly sought to remove him from office—his administration took action. The municipal agency that once specialized in disaster prevention and response...

... for contending with environmental disasters is the urban, and city governments have raced to grapple with the shifting timescales in which climate change runs up against long-term localized ecological changes to multiply existing urban vulnerabilities. By viewing urbanization processes as emergent within...

... to make massive investments in climate risk reduction — just as, after September 11, it was tempting to pour resources into a heavily militarized version of homeland security. But Becker issues a warning: “Spend the money to prepare for this disaster and you don’t have it to spend on preparations for some...

... benefits, strengthening the networks that promote health and prosperity during ordinary times as well as mitigating disaster damage. Our research involved a blend of fieldwork, interviews, photography, and policy analysis. Some of the articles aim to assess whether the emerging models for adaptation work...