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Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity: Perspectives from the Colombian Andes book cover

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Disasters and Life in Anticipation of Slow Calamity Perspectives from the Colombian Andes

By Reidar Staupe-Delgado Copyright 2022
152 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred. This book explores what it means to live in anticipation of disaster and in anticipation of an uprooting of... Read more

Foreword by JC Gaillard Part 1: Context  1. Introduction: life in anticipation of slow calamity  2. Aponte: political, geographical and community context  3. The phenomenon: the natural hazard and its characteristics: some reflections  Part 2: Experiencing slow calamity  4. Making sense of the hazard: interpretations of the phenomenon  5. Living with a slow calamity: disruption and continuity in the face of creeping destruction  6. The ancestral land: territory, community and resettlement  Part 3: Reflections  7. Living in anticipation of impending calamity: towards an analytical notion  8. Concluding reflections

Biography

Reidar Staupe-Delgado is an Associate Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research interests revolve around disasters, health emergencies and broader social problems, with a particular focus on slowly manifesting disasters.

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