Legal governance of disaster brings both care and punishment to
the upending of daily life of place-based disasters. National
states use disasters to reorganize how they govern. This collection
considers how law is implicated in disaster. The late modern
expectation that states are to care for their population makes it
particularly important to point out the limits to care-limits that
appear less in the grand rhetoric than in the government reports,
case-level decisionmaking, administrative rules, and
criminalization that make up governing. These insightful essays
feature leading scholars whose perspectives range across disasters
around the world. Their findings point to reconsidering what states
do in disaster, and how law enables and constrains action. The
chapters are:
Introduction (Susan Sterett) 1 Uncertain Governance and
Resilient Subjects in the Risk Society (Pat O'Malley) 2 Land Use
Planning and Disaster: A European Perspective from Spain (Juli
Ponce) 3 Law, State and the Politics of Catastrophes: A Critical
Perspective on Epiphanies of Injustice and the Need for Protection
(Valerio Nitrato Izzo) 4 The Comparative Jurisprudence of Wildfire
Mitigation: Moral Community, Political Culture, and Policy Learning
(Lloyd Burton) 5 Transboundary Impacts of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Disaster: Focus on Legal Dilemmas in South Florida (Alka Sapat
& Ann-Margaret Esnard) 6 Disaster Mythology and Availability
Cascades (Lisa Grow Sun) 7 The Role of Law in Engineering "Natural"
Disasters (Arthur F. McEvoy) 8 Multi-level Governance in
Environmental Risk Management (Petra Hiller) 9 Internal
Environmental Displacement: A Growing Challenge to the U.S. Welfare
State (Michelle A. Meyer) 10 Long Term Recovery in Disaster
Response and the Role of Non-Profits (Victor B. Flatt & Jeffrey
J. Stys) 11 Disasters, Focusing Events, and Sociolegal Studies
(Thomas A. Birkland)
The authors analyze sociological and legal issues surrounding
disasters and catastrophic events in their many forms: natural,
man-made, environmental, human, local, and global. The project was
developed as part of the the Onati Socio-legal Series supported by
the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, and is
now presented by Quid Pro Books in the "Contemporary Society
Series."
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