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DisasterlandStories of a Fragmented World

Disasterland: Stories of a Fragmented World [The international world of “natural” disasters, like any community seeking a degree of cohesion, has produced a set of narratives to explain how it came about. This output, which in some regards is akin to a form of mythology, talks about the origins of this world and narrates its creation, organizes its structures and assigns roles to the various actors. Yet what is striking is less the coherence of a regime of truth and action than the heterogeneity of the narratives and the “programs of truth” (Veyne, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) that contribute to forging the mythic foundation of the world of “natural” disasters.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. Based on a translation from the French language edition: Les coulisses du monde des catastrophes «naturelles» by Sandrine Revet Copyright © Editions de la Maison des Sciences de L'Homme 2018 All Rights Reserved
ISBN
978-3-030-41581-5
Pages
25 –51
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-41582-2_2
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Abstract

[The international world of “natural” disasters, like any community seeking a degree of cohesion, has produced a set of narratives to explain how it came about. This output, which in some regards is akin to a form of mythology, talks about the origins of this world and narrates its creation, organizes its structures and assigns roles to the various actors. Yet what is striking is less the coherence of a regime of truth and action than the heterogeneity of the narratives and the “programs of truth” (Veyne, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) that contribute to forging the mythic foundation of the world of “natural” disasters.]

Published: Apr 29, 2020

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