All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State
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Elektronische Ressource
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Verlag:
Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Veröffentlichungsort:
Oxford
Entstehungszeit:
2022
Umfang, Illustration, Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Sprache:
Englisch
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Abstract:
Disasters are commonly understood as exceptional occurences that destroy human life, property, and resources. But what is the relationship between such occurences and modern states responsible for guarding society against them? In All Is Well, Saptarishi Bandopadhyay argues that disasters are artifacts of "normal" rule.They result from the same, mundane strategies of knowledge-making, and violence by which authorities, experts, and people struggle to develop state-like power, to define and defend the social order. Drawing on three case studies, Bandopadhyay examines eighteenth-century exercises in catastrophe conservation and state formation, and shows how the underlying beliefs and resulting insights shape contemporary narratives, norms, and practices of global disaster management.
Cover -- All Is Well -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. In the Shadow of Leviathans Seen and Unseen -- 2. Corner Pieces -- 3. Marseille 1720: Administrative Catharsis as Disaster Management -- 4. Portugal 1755: Empire of Accident -- 5. Bengal 1770: Famine, Corruption, and the Climate of Legal Despotism -- 6. Risk Thinking and the Enduring Structure of Vicissitudes -- 7. The Past-Imperfect Future -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Documentary Sources -- Index.
Cover -- All Is Well -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. In the Shadow of Leviathans Seen and Unseen -- 2. Corner Pieces -- 3. Marseille 1720: Administrative Catharsis as Disaster Management -- 4. Portugal 1755: Empire of Accident -- 5. Bengal 1770: Famine, Corruption, and the Climate of Legal Despotism -- 6. Risk Thinking and the Enduring Structure of Vicissitudes -- 7. The Past-Imperfect Future -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Documentary Sources -- Index.
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