Disasters OG25 EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC

EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLGYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE From fire walking to funerals

often in their most extreme moments

a product of evolution—and yet

A scathing critique of the Left from an indigenous anti-colonial perspective

Disasters OG25 EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFICDisasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and the global, national, and local processes that produce environmental degradation and disaster. Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards as a