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Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses

Bankoff, Greg

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Greg Bankoff



Abstract

A warming climate and less predictable weather patterns, as well as an expanding urban infrastructure susceptible to geophysical hazards, make the world an increasingly dangerous place, even for those living in high‐income countries. It is an opportune moment, therefore, from the vantage point of the second decade of the twenty‐first century, to review the terms and concepts that have been employed regularly over the past 50 years to assess risk and to measure people's exposure to such events in the light of the wider geopolitical context. In particular, it is useful to examine ‘vulnerability’, ‘resilience’, and ‘adaptation’, the principal theoretical concepts that, from an historical perspective, have dominated disaster studies since the end of the Second World War. In addition, it is valuable to enquire as to the extent to which such discourses were ideological products of their time, which sought to explain societies and their environments from the stance of competing conceptual frameworks.

Citation

Bankoff, G. (2018). Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses. Disasters, 43(2), 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12312

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 20, 2017
Online Publication Date Oct 4, 2018
Publication Date Oct 4, 2018
Deposit Date Aug 24, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Disasters
Print ISSN 0361-3666
Electronic ISSN 1467-7717
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 43
Issue 2
Pages 221-239
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12312
Keywords Vulnerability; Resilience; Adaptation; Cold War; Discourses
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/454266
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12312

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