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By Claudia Aradau
This ebook argues that disaster is a specific means of governing destiny occasions – akin to terrorism, weather swap or pandemics – which we can't are expecting yet that can strike without notice, by surprise, and reason irreversible damage.
At a time the place disaster more and more services as a signifier of our destiny, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory wisdom and redeployed current ones. even though it stocks many similarities with crises, mess ups, dangers and different disruptive incidents, this ebook claims that catastrophes additionally convey out the very limits of information and administration. The politics of disaster is grew to become in the direction of an unknown destiny, which needs to be imagined and inhabited with the intention to be made palpable, knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe significantly assesses the consequences of those new practices of figuring out and governing catastrophes to come back and demanding situations the reader to consider the potential of another politics of catastrophe.
This publication should be of curiosity to scholars of serious safeguard reviews, hazard concept, political concept and diplomacy in general.
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Catastrophes can be diagnosed and prognosticated but not solved. Behind the issues of scale that are increasingly seen to differentiate emergencies, crises, disasters and catastrophes, the question of the unknown thus needs to be posed anew: how to manage events that are difficult, if not impossible, to predict and that could have potentially catastrophic consequences? What epistemic regime emerges when security professionals can no longer solely rely on the controlled manipulation of risk or be sure if such events can be absorbed or mitigated?
The CONTEST document is arguably the most explicit crystallization of the forms of action and modes of knowledge that also inform many other counter-terrorism strategies and plans of action. The EU counter-terrorism strategy, for instance, has also categorized the actions to tackle terrorism into four main categories: prevention, protection, prosecution and response (Council of the European Union 2005), where the EU term ‘response’ (the only ‘non-P’) resonates with the rationality of preparedness in the UK strategy.
On a smaller scale, some of the physical parallels are remarkable … Both events represent a symbolic victory of chaos over order. (Alexander 2002: 5–6) Moreover, the knowledge developed in sociology and geography about disasters has also informed this merging. Drabek, for instance, has prepared literature summaries for instruction on FEMA courses focused on the social dimensions of disasters (Drabek and Evans, 2005: 3). Even if the interpenetration of these practices has gained more attention after 9/11, the knowledge of crisis and disaster management shows that the concern with unknown, catastrophic futures predates 9/11 and the end of the Cold War.