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Hilhorst, Dorothea (editor)

Hilhorst, Dorothea (editor)

DISASTER, CONFLICT AND SOCIETY IN CRISES: EVERYDAY POLITICS OF CRISIS RESPONSE

DISASTER, CONFLICT AND SOCIETY IN CRISES: EVERYDAY POLITICS OF CRISIS RESPONSE

New York

Routledge

2013

FF: Society and Social Sciences > Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)

978-0-415-64082-4

LCCN: 2012050434 Contents: Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises: Everyday Politics of Crisis Response Part I: Policy Speak and Practice Discourses of War, Peace and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka The Political History of Disaster Management in Mozambique The De-disasterisation of Food Crises: Structural Reproduction or Change in Policy Development and Response Options? A Case Study from Ethiopia The Politics of 'Catastrophization' Part II: Institutions and Institutional Multiplicity Conflict, Governance and Institutional Multiplicity: Parallel Governance in Kosovo and Chiapas, Mexico Two Decades of Ordering Refugees: The Development of Institutional Multiplicity in Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp Conflict Minerals in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Planned Interventions and Unexpected Outcomes Institutional Multiplicity in Post-conflict Reconstruction: The Case of a Local Church in Bunjei, Angola Flying Below the Radar: Inter-ethnic Marriages in Sri Lanka's War Zone Part III: Arenas of Interventions Humanitarian Space as Arena: A Perspective on the Everyday Politics of Aid The Politics of Peacebuilding through Strengthening Civil Society The Everyday Politics of Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Java, Indoneisa Post-conflict Recovery and Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development in Angola: From Crisis to Normality? Doing Good / Being Nice? Aid Legitimacy and Mutual Imaging of Aid Workers and Aid Recipients

Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What does this mean for our understanding of politics, aid, and local institutions during crises? This book examines this question from a sociological perspective. This book provides a qualitative inquiry into the social and political dynamics of local institutional response, international policy and aid interventions in crises caused by conflict or natural disaster. Emphasising the importance of everyday practices, this book qualitatively unravels the social and political working of policies, aid programmes and local institutions. The first part of the book deals with the social life of politics in crisis. Some of the questions raised are: What is the meaning of human security in practice? How do governments and other actors use crises to securitize and hence depoliticize - their strategies? The second part of the book deals with the question how local institutions fare under and transform in response to crises. Conflicts and disasters are breakpoints of social order, with a considerable degree of chaos and disruption, but they are also marked by processes of continuity and re-ordering, or the creation of new institutions and linkages. This part of the book focuses on institutions varying from inter-ethnic marriage patterns in Sri Lanka to situation of institutional multiplicity in Angola. The final part of the book concerns the social and political realities of different domains of interventions in crisis, including humanitarian aid, peace-building, disaster risk reduction and safety nets to address chronic food crises. This book gives students and researchers in humanitarian studies, disaster studies, conflict and peace studies as well as humanitarian and military practitioners an invaluable wealth of case studies and unique political science analysis of the humanitarian studies field.

150.H5.D5

Developing Countries' Problems ; Politics ; Government ; Disaster Relief ; War ; Natural Disasters ; Social Response ;