Introduction. Introducing Critical Disaster Studies

Andy Horowitz and Jacob A. C. Remes

Part I. Knowing Disaster

Chapter 1. The Voyage of the Paragon: Disaster as Method

Scott Gabriel Knowles and Zachary Loeb

Chapter 2. Acts of God, Man, and System: Knowledge, Technology, and the Construction of Disaster

Ryan Hagen

Chapter 3. When Does a Crisis Begin? Race, Gender, and the Subprime Noncrisis of the Late 1990s

Dara Z. Strolovitch

Part II. Governing Disaster

Chapter 4. Concrete Kleptocracy and Haiti's Culture of Building: Toward a New Temporality of Disaster

Claire Antone Payton

Chapter 5. Risk Technopolitics in Freetown Slums: Why Community-Based Disaster Management Is No Silver Bullet

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg

Chapter 6. Spaces at Risk: Urban Politics and Slum Relocation in Chennai, India

Pranathi Diwakar

Chapter 7. Plan B: The Collapse of Public-Private Risk Sharing in the US National Flood Insurance Program

Rebecca Elliott

Part III. Imagining Disaster

Chapter 8. Mediating Disaster, or A History of the Novel

Susan Scott Parrish

Chapter 9. The T¿kai Earthquake and Changing Lexicons of Risk

Kerry Smith

Chapter 10. Translating Disaster Knowledge from Japan to Chile: A Proposal for Incompleteness

Chika Watanabe

Afterword. "Acts of Men": Disasters Neglected, Preventable, and Moral

Kenneth Hewitt

Notes

Bibliography

Index

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments