The pluriverse of disasters: knowledge, mediation and citizenship

Thesis

This thesis looks at a variety of stakeholders and how they inform the conversations around disasters and disaster sites. In particular it focuses on the way knowledge frameworks of different actors informs this dialogue and defines the nature of their response. The thesis argues that this has an implication for debates on democracy, governance and citizenship.

The thesis looks at four sets of actors: individuals confronting and coping with the everydayness of disasters.; the states...

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Authors: Parmar, C

• Publication date: 2012
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Citizenship; Knowledge; Governance; Disaster Studies
• Subjects: Politics of Knowledge; Disaster response; India; Hindu civilization; Survival; Humanitarianism; Voluntarism; Ethnography; Resilience; Disasters; Disaster Studies