Geography and Disasters: Places, Processes and the Human Geographical Imagination

Drawing on global case studies, this is the first book to outline and elaborate on the ways that human geography has extended our understanding of disasters.

Every chapter analyses disasters through the lens of a different theoretical framework common to geography, including assemblage theory, post-colonialism, urban political ecology, governmentality, affect theory and scale. The case studies in the collection range from hurricane risk in the Caribbean and volcano eruptions in Chile to floo...