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In whatever manner they arrive, abrupt or subtle, seemingly environmental or a human created source, disasters are all-encompassing occurrences. In their wake they sweep across every aspect of human life: environmental, biological, and socio-cultural. It is their root social cultural causes along with their sweeping ramifications that make anthropology so important in their understanding. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5f600242821fec5d329acd44/1600127569016/P2200138.JPG Home - Disasters do not just happen. They take place when two key factors merge: 1) a human population with its long evolved customary way of living and 2) a potentially destructive agent that is part of a total ecological system, including all natural, modified, and constructed features. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5e600b6581315177764447f9/1600120959019/Podium%2Bin%2BCopenhagen.jpg Home Keynote Seminar, Swedish Security and Define, Karlstad University, Karstad, Sweden, June, 2019 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5f5ff19f1929116534c2d5df/1600123438303/FB_IMG_1597656003342.jpg Home First Aegean Initiative Between Greece and Turkey https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5f5ff182c35a6963b16b6ff4/1600123364730/facebook9515998597908829567102983203358130129569646933068847.jpg Home Gender and Disaster Florida https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5f60f5593f6cce0ad7742a81/1600189902989/AngryEarthComp.png Home - The Angry Earth From hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes to oil spills and nuclear accidents, natural and technological disasters have become increasingly frequent and destructive across the planet. This ground-breaking collection of essays explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering new insights into the complex relationship between society and environment. Through case studies of communities in Great Britain, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Americas, contributors examine issues ranging from the social and political factors that set the stage for disaster, to the cultural processes experienced by survivors, to the long-term impact of disasters on culture and society. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5f6103c6ea6b1a052054f056/1600193540775/Disaster+Upon+Disaster+cover.png Home - DISASTER UPON DISASTER Exploring the Gap between Knowledge, Policy & Practice A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academicand expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with theconcern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure.Disaster uponDisaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the world, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and neatly advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/6140b624d41fda46d0c2ecb3/1631631454828/Cooling+Down+Cover+Photo.jpg Home - Cooling Down:Local Responses to Global Climate Change co-edited with Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Paulo Mendes Berghahn Books, 2021 (forthcoming) ...lights up the lived experiences of climate. change populations across the globe… reminding us of the edifying acumen of ethnography. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e5432cdf7aab81cd1e5a9dc/t/5f6104de1e129e2b712365cf/1600193787068/Catastrophe+and+Culture.png Home - Catastrophe and Culture The Anthropology of Disaster At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the important insights that an anthropology perspective offer to the illumination of disasters, as this best-selling volume provides, are crucial to revealing how calamities arise and unfold. 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