The series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster explores how environmental, technological, and health risks are created, managed, and analyzed in different contexts. Global in scope and drawing on perspectives from multiple disciplines, volumes in the series examine the ways that planning, science, and technology are implicated in disasters. The series also engages public policy formation—including analysis of science, technology, and environmental policy as well as welfare, conflict resolution, and economic policy developments where relevant.
Series Editors:
Kim Fortun
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Professor in the Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jacob A.C. Remes
Clinical Associate Professor of History, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, Living with Risk in the Late Roman World demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks that they perceived.
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and the first to show why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan’s efforts to prepare for a dangerous future ever since.
As officials scrambled to limit the spread of COVID in 2020, the reverberations of the crisis reached beyond immediate public health problems. Susan M. Sterett argues that litigation revealed not only the failure of private insurance as a way of governing risk but also conflicts over the primacy of religion, government authority, and health.
Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis
Joshua Moses
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225136
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In Experts in the Age of Anxiety, Joshua Moses chronicles the rise of disaster-related spiritual expertise in the years following the attacks of 9/11 and provides a lens through which to understand the historical dimensions of disaster-related trauma, its treatment, and the ways that therapeutic and spiritual practices imply politics.
Edited by Howard Kunreuther, Robert J. Meyer and Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812225082
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
Highlighting past research, recent discoveries, and open questions, The Future of Risk Management provides scholars, businesses, civil servants, and the concerned public tools for making more informed decisions and developing long-term strategies for reducing future losses from potentially catastrophic events.
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: critical disaster studies. Critical Disaster Studies strips away the technocratic veneer that too often makes structural problems appear to be acute emergencies.
Edited by Kyle Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles and Ryuma Shineha
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812252989
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In Legacies of Fukushima, contributors, drawn from the realms of journalism and academia, science policy and citizen science, activism and governance, contextualize 3.11 through the lens of critical disaster studies.
Disastrous Times explores how people across Asia live through and make sense of environmental transformation and asks how we might analyze this moment of disruption and risk.
Edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles, Alexa S. Dietrich and Rodrigo Ugarte
Contributions by Joie Acosta, George Aumoithe, Tanya Buhler Corbin, Anirban Kapil Baishya, Jih-Fei Cheng, Moon Choi, Vivian Choi, Nishaant Choksi, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Sukanya Deogam, Kim Fortun, Alice Fothergill, Danya Glabau, Monica H. Green, Dolly Jørgensen, Dani Joslyn, Christine Keeves, Hyunah Keum, Christos Lynteris, Rachel Margolis, Katherine A. Mason, Tyesha Maddox, Luke J. Matthews, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Samantha Montano, Courtney Page-Tan, Hyeonbin Park, Lori Peek, Elisa Perego, Rashawn Ray, Kalpesh Rathwa, Monica Sanders, Amanda Savitt, Sarah Senk, Robert Soden, Jacob Steere-Williams, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Kathleen Tierney, Kristin Urquiza, Ashton M. Verdery, Carlos Villegas, Haowei Wang, Jacqueline Wernimont, Sarah S. Willen, Heather M. Wurtz, Myungji Yang and Carl A. Zimring
