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A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era–beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States–Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money. In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A. C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive "solutions" on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape.
What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
Provides emergency information in case of natural hazards: floods, hurricanes, thunderstorms (lightning, tornadoes), winter storms and extreme cold, extreme heat ((heat wave), emergency water shortage), eathquakes, volcanoes (volcanic eruptions), landslides and debris flow (mudslide), tsunamis, and fire (wildland fires); and technological and man-made hazards: hazardous materials incidents (household chemical emergencies), nuclear power plants, national security emergencies (terrorism, chemical and biological weapons).
Accompanying CD-ROM contains additional supporting materials, sample electronic slide presentations, and other resources.
This is a completely revised and updated do-it-yourself guide including extensive checklists that enable people to prepare for any natural or manmade disaster. Checklists provide actions to take before, during and, after disasters that people may be experiencing or may experience in the future. This book goes beyond wilderness survival guides and specifically addresses in discussions information urban residents need to protect their family in any situation.
This dissertation analyzes race, citizenship, and social movements after March 11, 2011 (3/11), when Japan suffered a triple disaster of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami, and reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This project builds upon on a growing body of literature that documents the significance of 3/11 as a watershed event that significantly popularized protest in Japan. I focus on a subset of this political wave--a nationwide counter movement against racist hate speech, a social phenomenon in which ultranationalist Japanese networks continually target Zainichi Koreans, foreigners, and other racial/ethnic minorities. Data for this project was collected using ethnographic methods over a total of thirty-six months in Tokyo and Osaka between 2014 and 2018 and includes participant observation, in-depth interviews (n=60), and analysis of social media, news media, and other cultural artifacts, such as documentaries. This project is organized around two research questions. First, why do disasters trigger broader social and political contestations about race, social inequality, human rights, and inclusion? Second, in what ways do “post-disaster” politics reiterate, supplement, or disrupt existing modalities of discrimination and exclusion? I answer these questions through the concept of post-disaster citizenship, which describes how people make use of disasters to reconstruct meanings around social membership and citizenship, in this case, Zainichi Koreans and foreigners. I find that a segment of activists viewed their transition into anti-racist social movements as a natural outgrowth of their political “awakenings” after 3/11. In the absence of adequate responses from the state, these Japanese activists feel an urgent sense of responsibility to advocate for legal protections for vulnerable and/or marginalized people and to construct alternative sites of social inclusion. In attempting to reimagine the politics of obligation and protection, however, these activist communities can also inadvertently reproduce gender-based inequalities. This dissertation also documents the negotiations that arise when post-3/11 activists collaborate with local Zainichi Korean-led community networks. By examining these cases, I show the complexities of activists’ attempts to construct a shared vision of political recuperation amidst longstanding asymmetries of vulnerability and injury.