Animal Disease and Human Trauma: Emotional Geographies of Disaster

by I. Convery, M. Mort, J. Baxter, C. Bailey

Overview

Many disasters are approached by researchers, managers and policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end. But often the experience of being in a disaster is not like this. This book offers non-linear, non-prescriptive ways of thinking about disasters and allows the people affected by disaster the chance to speak.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349353286
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

IAN CONVERY is Senior Lecturer in the National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria, UK and is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK.

MAGGIE MORT is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Health Research and Co-Director of the Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University, UK.

JOSEPHINE BAXTER is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK.

CATHY BAILEY is Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway, Republic of Ireland.

Table of Contents

Preface; K. Erikson List of Illustrations Introduction Disasters Global to Local: The Case of Foot and Mouth Disease in Cumbria Of Animals and Humans The Power of Things, Materials Trauma and Traumatic Experience Working on the Frontline Exploring the Lifescape Reconfiguring Disasters Appendix I: The Compulsory Cull References Index

Editorial Reviews

'...a valuable contribution to the literature on disasters.' - Vicente Rodriguez, Environment and Planning

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