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Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazards in the Philippines

by Greg Bankoff. 238 pgs.

Contributors:

   Greg Bankoff

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  London  

Publication Year:

  2002

Subjects:

Natural Disasters--Philippines, Natural Disasters--Philippines--Psychological Aspects, Natural Disasters--Philippines--Social Aspects, Natural Disasters--Asia, South

	List of figures	ix
	List of tables	xi
	Preface	xiii
	List of acronyms	xv
	Introduction: Of jellyfish and coups	1
1	‘Vulnerability’ as western discourse	5
	Rendering the world unsafe	6
	Natural disasters and vulnerability	10
	Natural disasters as cultural discourse	14
2	Environment and hazard in Southeast Asia	18
	Environment and society	19
	Resource use	24
	Hazard in Southeast Asia	27
3	A history of hazard in the Philippines	31
	Environment and hazard	32
	A history of hazard	34
	Hazard and society in the past	54
4	The ‘costs’ of hazard in the contemporary Philippines	61
	The years of calamity 1970-1999	62
	The cost of hazard	76
5	The politics of disaster management and relief	83
	The management of disaster	84
	The politics of disaster	91
	Debt and disaster	102
6	The economics of red tides	106
	Red tides as natural hazards	107
	Red tides in the Philippines	110
	The economics of red tides	113
	Red tides and society	119
7	The social order and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation	123
	ENSO and the Philippines	124
	Drought and flood in Mindanao 1997-99	135
	The politics of water	143
	Water and the social order	148
8	Cultures of disaster	152
	The aetiology of disasters	153
	Cultures of disaster	158
	In the shadow of the volcano	162
	Conclusion: Hazard as a frequent life experience	179
	Beyond ‘vulnerability’	182
	Notes	184
	References	200
	Index	225

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