In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of
nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of
global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of
the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat
wave that struck in August 2003, leaving 15,000 dead. They died
alone in Paris and its suburbs, and were then buried at public
expense, their bodies unclaimed. They died, and to a great extent
lived, unnoticed by their neighbors-their bodies undiscovered in
some cases until weeks after their deaths. Fatal Isolation tells
the stories of these victims and the catastrophe that took their
lives. It explores the multiple narratives of disaster-the official
story of the crisis and its aftermath, as presented by the media
and the state; the life stories of the individual victims, which
both illuminate and challenge the ways we typically perceive
natural disasters; and the scientific understandings of disaster
and its management. Fatal Isolation is both a social history of
risk and vulnerability in the urban landscape and a story of how a
city copes with emerging threats and sudden, dramatic change.
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