Public Catastrophes, Private Losses (eBook)

Arlene Stein, Sarah Tobias (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3877-2 (ISBN)

Infos

From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others. This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, and ecosystems. Using feminist methodologies, the contributors to Public Catastrophes, Private Losses trace the connections between seemingly unrelated forms of violence such as structural racism, environmental degradation, and public health crises. In contrast to a news media that focuses on mass fatalities and immediate consequences, these essays call our attention to how catastrophes can also involve slow violence with long-term effects. The authors also consider how these catastrophes are profoundly shaped by government action or inaction, offering a powerful critique of how government neglect has cost lives and demonstrating how vulnerable populations can be better protected. The essays in this collection examine how public catastrophes imprint themselves on lives, as individuals and communities narrate, process, and grapple with legacies of loss. The book is thus a feminist intervention that challenges the binary between public and private, personal and political.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2025
• Co-Autor: Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Leslye Amede Obiora, Kathleen C. Riley, Christina Sharpe, Carmen Vazquez, Bela August Walker, Jennifer Flynn Walker, Michelle Commander, Basuli Deb, Marisa J. Fuentes, Marcia Gallo, Smruthi Bala Kannan, Naomi Klein, Stacy S. Klein
• Einführung: Arlene Stein, Sarah Tobias
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-10: 1-9788-3877-8 / 1978838778
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9788-3877-2 / 9781978838772