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Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction

By Alexander De Waal (Foreword by), Sara E. Alexander (Contribution by), Gregory Button (Contribution by), Bettina Damiani (Contribution by), Antonio Donini (Contribution by), Elizabeth Guillette (Contribution by), Wahneema Lubiano (Contribution by), Anthony Oliver-Smith (Contribution by), Adolph Reed Jr (Contribution by), Anna Belinda Sandoval Girón (Contribution by), Susan Stonich (Contribution by), Nandini Gunewardena (Editor), Mark Schuller (Editor)
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By Alexander De Waal (Foreword by), Sara E. Alexander (Contribution by), Gregory Button (Contribution by), Bettina Damiani (Contribution by), Antonio Donini (Contribution by), Elizabeth Guillette (Contribution by), Wahneema Lubiano (Contribution by), Anthony Oliver-Smith (Contribution by), Adolph Reed Jr (Contribution by), Anna Belinda Sandoval Girón (Contribution by), Susan Stonich (Contribution by), Nandini Gunewardena (Editor), Mark Schuller (Editor)
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In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have prepared for and responded to recent cataclysms. The book's principal focus is the increasing trend to rely on the private sector to deal with natural disasters and other forms of large—scale devastation, from hurricanes and tsunamis to civil wars and industrial accidents. Called 'disaster capitalism' by its critics, the tendency to contract priv...

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