This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins

Scholars from seven disciplines, whose work spans five continents, announce a new way of seeing disasters that is essential for making sense of our time: critic

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This timely Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. It provides an interdisc