Search Results for disaster relief

... and disaster relief. Bringing together ethnography and the social study of science and technology, this article illuminates uncertainties inhabiting military protocol in a crisscrossed public-private infrastructural universe. Focusing on the crucial predawn hours when rogue tsunami waves push against...

..., mobilize large numbers of people to participate in movements actively rather than solely participating online or through voting, and offer spaces to practice new social relations. The article looks at examples from efforts for migrant justice, police and prison abolition, disaster relief, and other...

.... Occupy Sandy is one example of the collective organizing that emerges from catastrophe. Rather than merely donating supplies, relief efforts included building more sustainable communities, bolstering local businesses, and employing skill-sharing techniques. The work of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, which...

... . Dauber Michele Landis . The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . Davenport Benjamin Rush . Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham . Cleveland : Caxton , 1902 . Dennert...

... of the disaster. Mikhail’s writing of the disaster of military human rights intervention depicts it as different from other disasters of the twentieth century, however, in that it destroys a way of life that is made legible only through this destruction. Reading Mikhail’s poetry, one finds this way of life...

... fantasize about a disaster, the Casio reduced the probability that a real one would actually happen. The coincidence would be too great. Over the years, this fetish value has proven far greater than the thing’s value as a calculator. I’ve...

... could pro- vide the necessary aid to those in need. However, the language of aid, relief, and recovery made the welfare recipient seem a foreigner in her own land—a refugee, a disaster victim—and the sheer magnitude...

... are depoliticized and rendered into a unitary and global category in need only of global humanitarian aid and relief. Between the subnational actors of civil war and the supranational actors of international law, the displaced person, now a generic victim, finds...

... another with a violent rapidity and on a horrific scale and scope. All was laid bare, and the structures and practices that created the conditions for their eruption were brought into stark relief. We were seeing the final destruction of the world: pestilence, rapacious late-stage capitalism, climate...

... decades. This article argues that it is imperative we deepen the debate about strategies to provoke revolutionary ruptures within the fossil‐capitalist world system. We need viable strategies to generalize mutual aid and disaster communism, and these strategies must provide concrete solutions...

... emphasis was associated most often with a group of university faculty who signed an ad in early April — before any criminal charges were filed — that called the party and its aftermath “a social disaster” and featured primarily black student comments about the Social Text 93, Vol. 25, No. 4...

... and the height of the cape's COVID-19 pandemic. 26. Madonsela, “It is worse if #BulelaniQolani tactically undressed himself.” 27. Quoted in Nombembe, “We Feel Insulted.” 28. The national State of Disaster was instituted on March 15, 2020, and lifted April 5, 2022, with residual...

..., the other public for the poor. Health workers are themselves not protected: they don't get a living wage, and thousands of community health-care workers are employed precariously without proper contracts. The government's COVID-19 relief is paltry and tokenistic. A worker not born in South Africa...

... to the Cold War era, military fortification was never lost upon me. Nike missiles had been built and stored there. From 1953 to 1979, the US Army operated close to three hundred of such sites, ready to launch at a moment's notice against the Soviet Union. We have long been on the edge of disaster. We...

... with reference to this and other images, “My experience of photographs of disasters that happen in Black spaces and to Black people is that they usually feature groups of Black people, to quote Elizabeth Alexander, in ‘pain for public consumption’” ( In the Wake , 53 ). 14. For an insightful discussion...

... at a live performance, at a reading, in a music video, on social media, or in a poem, render it the solitary act of finding relief, pleasure, and comfort alone. The provisional moments of solitude, rest, and protection that staying in can offer critique the exhausting liberal mandate impressed upon...

... by a pervasive sense of precarity and relentless uncertainty that puts meaning and the social itself in question. We suggest that such afterworlds are characteristic of a broader historical moment characterized by the proliferation of disasters that are lived as endemic conditions: mass extinctions, 2...

...- ently not satisfied with the disaster at hand, began disseminating the fear that terrorists, having succeeded in shutting down air travel and the stock market, might launch a follow-up attack using chemical or biological weapons. Whether the fear was prescient or causal, TV and radio jour- nalists...

... for managing disasters, financing catastrophe relief efforts through ‘margin money.’ The IRDA [insurance regulatory authority of India] favors unified laws with insurers being given a system whereby municipalities could be empowered...

... by man-altered landscapes, in which all praxis seems to be snuffed out, abstracted, extinguished.” In lieu of the term Anthropocene , Toscano favors Jason W. Moore’s Capitalocene , which restores capitalism, instead of ecological disaster or human agency, as the central agent in historical change...