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MACMILLAN Waiting for the Big One: Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness

Name: Waiting for the Big One: Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness
Brand: MACMILLAN
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This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake’s “mode of existence,” guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices. From the Back Cover This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake’s “mode of existence,” guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices. About the Author Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, jointly developed by the University and the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Science and Technologies Studies from the University of Paris-Est, an MA in Cultural Geography from Université de Reims, France, and an MA and BA in Information and Communications Sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (CELSA) at Université Paris Sorbonne.

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Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: Paperback
ASIN: 303015291X
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 11 September 2020
Listed Since: 19 August 2020

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