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Governing DisastersCultivating Communities after Disaster: A Whirlwind of Generosity on the Coasts of Sri Lanka

Governing Disasters: Cultivating Communities after Disaster: A Whirlwind of Generosity on the... [A common idea in many studies of catastrophe is that the experience of disaster ruptures the worldly order, causing the obliteration of every means of making sense of human existence. According to this approach, the traumatic fracture of catastrophe cannot be easily repaired, because it threatens to leave people unanchored from their prospects for planning, sharing values, acting, and making history as agents present in the world. The well-known Italian folklorist Ernesto De Martino uses the concept of “crisis of presence” to describe this condition of displacement and alarming uncertainty that human beings experience under certain circumstances (disease, death, conflict, and calamity in general) when facing the potential loss of the familiar reference points that give meaning to daily life.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Governing DisastersCultivating Communities after Disaster: A Whirlwind of Generosity on the Coasts of Sri Lanka

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Revet, Sandrine; Langumier, Julien
Benadusi, Mara
Governing Disasters — Oct 14, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
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978-1-349-49320-3
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87 –125
DOI
10.1057/9781137435460_4
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Abstract

[A common idea in many studies of catastrophe is that the experience of disaster ruptures the worldly order, causing the obliteration of every means of making sense of human existence. According to this approach, the traumatic fracture of catastrophe cannot be easily repaired, because it threatens to leave people unanchored from their prospects for planning, sharing values, acting, and making history as agents present in the world. The well-known Italian folklorist Ernesto De Martino uses the concept of “crisis of presence” to describe this condition of displacement and alarming uncertainty that human beings experience under certain circumstances (disease, death, conflict, and calamity in general) when facing the potential loss of the familiar reference points that give meaning to daily life.]

Published: Oct 14, 2015

Keywords: Disaster Management; Tidal Wave; Indian Ocean Tsunami; Reconstruction Project; Monitoring Team

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