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- Huber, Amelie, et al.
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Beyond “Socially Constructed” Disasters : Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
- 2016
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Ingår i: Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. - HUDDINGE : Informa UK Limited. - 1045-5752 .- 1548-3290. ; , s. 1-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe’s most emblematic dam disasters – Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain) – and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India, this article argues that the damage caused by dam disasters is often not unavoidable or unforeseen but instead allowed to happen. Our cases show that power relations, economic pressures and profit influence “risky” dam management decisions, often disregarding the vernacular knowledge of concerned communities and silencing critical voices that do not fit dominant narratives of modernization and progress. We posit that an essential requirement for re-politicizing the question of dam safety is to unpack the apolitical notion of “socially constructed disasters,” thinking instead about “capital-driven destructions.” By emphasizing resistance against dam projects and against dominant risk discourses across space and time, this article seeks to underline the legitimacy of past and ongoing struggles surrounding the construction of large dams.
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- Biasillo, R., et al.
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The transformative potential of a disaster : a contextual analysis of the 1882 flood in Verona, Italy
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Historical Geography. - : Academic Press. - 0305-7488 .- 1095-8614. ; 66, s. 69-80
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores institutional responses to and societal understandings of the 1882 Adige flood in northern Italy, which particularly affected the city of Verona. The article investigates the transformative power of that disaster on a national scale in terms of forest policy and at a city level in terms of water management and urban planning. After the flood, an extensive programme of works aiming to contain and discipline both the river and its adjacent city dwellers coexisted with the launch of forest conservation and reforestation plans. This flood and its recovery phase incorporated and materialized the early Italian state's relationship to the natural world. We interpret the flood as providing an opportunity for redirecting Italy's local and national flood management strategies, triggering an explicit awareness of the interrelation between lowlands and highlands and enhancing modernization processes in many respects. Despite its historical and symbolic relevance, this flood has not yet been fully researched and poses crucial questions about ways of organising and selectively obliterating collective memories of disasters.
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- Colombo, Michele, 1975-, et al.
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Prefazione
- 2019
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Ingår i: Storia sacra e profana nei volgarizzamenti medioevali. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 9783110608571 ; , s. VII-XI, s. 5-10
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bonan, Giacomo, et al.
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The historian, the activist, the ecocritic, and the writer : an undisciplined debate on the Italian environmental history
- 2016
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Ingår i: AREAS-REVISTA INTERNACIONAL DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES. - : UNIV MURCIA. - 0211-6707. ; :35, s. 37-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is difficult to define what belongs exclusi-vely to Environmental History (EH), and even more what belongs to Italian Environmental History (IEH). This discipline often includes research concerned with different chronological periods, issues, approaches, and methods. This plurality of perspectives reflects the varied and often contrasting labels attached to those studies. This plurality of paths and experiences should not be considered a problem, but an opportunity to overcome the limitations of the current hyperspecialized structuring of research. For this reason, we have chosen to refer to the multidisciplinary area of the environmental humanities as the common ground. On the other hand, we have chosen a new way to present IEH to an international public: the interview and, especially in the last part, the multidisciplinary and hybrid dialogue.
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- Gorostiza, S., et al.
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Repairing as struggle for narrative justice : The dam failure of Vega de Tera, Spain (1959-2019)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery. - London : Informa UK Limited. ; , s. 87-109
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Around midnight of 9 January 1959, the Vega de Tera dam broke, releasing nearly 8 million cubic metres of water that destroyed the Spanish town of Ribadelago, killing 144 people. To this day, it remains the worst dam-related failure of the past two centuries of Spanish history. In this chapter we expand the time frame of the disaster, moving from a one-day narrative to focus on the processes of reparation during the disaster’s aftermath. We interpret the silence imposed upon the survivors of Ribadelago as a form of narrative injustice, that is, as the ensemble of strategies aiming to normalize/silence environmental injustice while delegitimizing any alternative storytelling. Our case shows how, in the aftermath of the disaster, the efforts of the Francoist dictatorship prioritized anticipating similar disasters and avoiding their repetition, rather than identifying the responsibilities or repairing the victims. In this context, memory emerges as a strategic tool for reclaiming the individual and collective agency of the survivors, as part of a wider process to achieve social repair. By analyzing the long-term recovery process, we argue that the survivors fought to achieve both judicial and narrative reparation.
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- Perez-Ramos, María Isabel, 1984-
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A QUEST FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SOVEREIGNTY : Chicana/o Literary Experiences of Water (Mis)Management and Environmental Degradation in the US Southwest
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The U.S. Southwest is a semi-arid region affected by numerous environmental problems. Chicana/o communities have been directly affected by such problems, especially ever since the region was annexed from Mexico by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. From this moment onwards they lost their environmental sovereignty, mostly through their dispossession of the natural resources. This environmental humanities dissertation focuses on the ethics, politics, and practices around water (management), for water is a key natural resource and a central element of Chicana/o cultural identity. It explores the ways in which Chicana/o culture is interconnected with environmental practices and sites in subaltern literary works about the Chicana/o experience. It investigates how the hegemonic Anglo-American environmental, political, and economic practices have challenged and undermined Chicana/o culture, identity, and wellbeing, and how this has been addressed in fiction; and it questions whether establishing such a connection adds any useful insights to the larger discussion on the global socio-environmental crisis. This dissertation also analyzes the writer activist character of the subaltern narratives of the corpus, with attention to the relevance of rhetoric in subverting and constructing environmental discourses and ethics. By examining regional and border narratives, as well as fiction and non-fiction narratives about the socio-environmental struggles of other ethnic minorities in the Southwest and in other parts of the world, this dissertation puts literature about the Chicana/o experience in a regional, national, and transnational context. It moreover explores the pivotal role of literature in reclaiming environmental sovereignty, in asserting cultural identities, and in countering the environmental crisis by imagining alternative managerial practices and socio-environmental relations, as much as in challenging cultural hegemonies.
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- Wormbs, Nina, 1968-, et al.
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En ny humanism för en ny värld
- 2015
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Ingår i: Dagens Nyheter. - Stockholm : AB Dagens nyheter. - 1101-2447. ; :19 okt
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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