Mimi Sheller, "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2020)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Natural Disasters and the Processes of Recovery and Reconstruction
The book partly abridges attention to a the earthquakeof 20 ten. And but it also is concerned with a climate change, and sort of climate change disasters,. The intensification of hurricanes, and even the srcoved pandemic, for example. These are all very different kinds of am origins in terms of go youno ecological processes. But what i argue is that disasters are also made by humans in terms of the systems that made people vulnerable to different kinds of disasters. In all these cases call for the building of more equitable and just social interstructures for care, for repair and for reparations.
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