1st Edition
The Institutionalisation of Disaster Risk Reduction South Africa and Neoliberal Governmentality
By Gideon van Riet
Copyright 2017
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
132 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a ‘could-be’ risk management approach. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become entrenched as a dominant paradigm within the field of disaster management. More than a decade after adopting DRR legislation in South Africa there remains a dearth of evidence that this has translated into... Read more
Introduction 1. A genealogy of disaster risk assessment and management 2. South Africa’s disaster risk profile 3. Writing structural violence: conceptualising ordinary South African being 4. Modes of institutionalisation 5. Knowledge production 6. Multiple dystopias Conclusion: (un)framing risk as a techno-political instrument
Biography
Gideon van Riet is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus in South Africa.
