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Disastrous Consequences
- A special issue of: South Atlantic Quarterly
- Volume: 106
- Issue: 4
- Special Issue Editor(s): Eric Cazdyn
- Published: 2007
- Pages: 236
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1. Disaster, Crisis, Revolution–Eric Cazdyn
2. Detroit: Disaster Deferred, Disaster In Progress–Jerry Herron
3. No Shelter From The Storm–Carol A. Stabile
4. When Disaster Is A Bureaucrat–Isobel S. Frye
5. Postcolonial Failure And The Politics Of Nation–Peter Hitchcock
6. Politicizing Weather: Two Polish Cases Of The Intersection Between Politics And Weather–Leszek Koczanowicz
7. Disastrous Accumulation–Neil Smith
8. Public Health Preparedness: Social Control Or Social Justice?–Steve Wing and Leah Schinasi
9. System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation Of Disaster–Imre Szeman
10. Incoming: Globalization, Disaster, Poetics–Walter Kalaidjian
11. Introduction To Isozaki Arata’s “City Demolition Industry, Inc.” and “Rumor City”–Fredric Jameson
12. City Demolition Industry, Inc.–Isozaki Arata
13. Rumor City–Isozaki Arata
14. Notes On Contributors
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- Isozaki Arata
- Isobel S. Frye
- Jerry Herron
- Peter Hitchcock
- Fredric Jameson
- Walter Kalaidjian
- Leszek Koczanowicz
- Neil Smith
- Carol A. Stabile
- Imre Szeman
- Steve Wing
- Leah Schinasi
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Description
The past few years have seen numerous natural disasters, from the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Many believe that these disasters will only increase as global warming intensifies. This special issue of SAQ examines the political and social problems that underlie and exacerbate the effects of disasters, be they natural or man-made.
From the fields of anthropology, architecture, cultural studies, economics, epidemiology, journalism, and philosophy, the contributors argue that disasters do not only follow from things going horribly wrong (extreme weather, economic collapse, urban decay). Often they are the predictable results of things going according to plan. The meaning of disaster itself is challenged, theorized again, and reconceptualized.
One essay argues that media reports during Hurricane Katrina worked to deny or disguise institutionalized racism, suppressing potential dissent and controversy. Another examines how the state bureaucracy reinforces cycles of death, disease, and poverty in South Africa. A third explores the devastating conditions of everyday life in Detroit that no longer register in the political imaginary of the United States. Still another investigates the connection between unusual weather events and the workings of the Communist Party in Poland. Finally, the renowned architect Isozaki Arata plays with the idea of urban planning in two short fables introduced by Fredric Jameson.
Contributors. Eric Cazdyn, Isobel S. Frye, Jerry Herron, Peter Hitchcock, Isozaki Arata, Fredric Jameson, Walter Kalaidjian, Leszek Koczanowicz, Leah Schinasi, Neil Smith, Carol A. Stabile, Imre Szeman, Steve Wing
