ISBN:
9781138861145
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (271 p)
Series Statement:
Antinomies
Parallel Title:
Print version Elliott, Anthony The Consequences of Global Disasters
DDC:
303.485
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- PART I: Expanding forms of disaster research -- 1. Broadening horizons of disaster research -- The social significance of disasters -- Disasters at the edge of history -- Expanding forms of disaster research -- Disasters and social division -- Social theory and the psycho-social dimensions of disasters -- The messiness of disaster research in the 21st century -- Note -- References
Abstract:
2. 'Flowers will bloom': How Japanese people mentally cope with the massive loss caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake -- 'Flowers will bloom': whose voice is heard in this song? -- Modernization and the transformation of ancestor worship -- Self-determination of death: from opposing control to considering personal relationships -- 'I am a thousand winds' -- For the next generation: the renewed image of continuing bonds -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3. Death and disaster: The catastrophe of suicide in Japan -- From disaster to catastrophe in Japan
Abstract:
Suicide, familism and 'the economic' -- Effects to affects of disaster -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4. Sociology of Japanese literature after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Analysing the disaster's underrepresented impacts -- The most recent study on new individualism and Sakuta's theory of individualism -- Analysing post-earthquake literature -- Another literary work and sense of guilt and desire -- A Nuclear Reactor in Love and taboos in post-war Japanese society -- Discussions, conclusions and further suggestions -- Notes -- References -- Literary works
Abstract:
5. From 'This is not a pipe' to 'This is not Fukushima': Global disaster and visual communication -- From the visual to the social -- Symbolic culture in the age of globalization -- Power of visual mode of orientation -- Analytical frame for the sociology of visuality -- Critical theory of visuality -- After Fukushima and climate change -- Regional contextualization of global disasters -- Notes -- References -- 6. Digital disaster communities -- Mission 4636 -- Castells: networks and global information society -- Globalization, privatization and pro-social behavior
Abstract:
Conclusion: the thinning of social relationships? -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Disasters and social division -- 7. Willingness of Australians to contribute now for long-term natural disaster mitigation -- Climate change and climate disasters -- Discounting the future -- The study -- Future distance -- Demographic factors -- Experience of disasters and age cohort -- The findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
8. New emotion, action and recognition of migrants and mediators after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Toward a new sociological theoretical approach to multicultural situations in Japan
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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