{"product_id":"disaster-upon-disaster-exploring-the-gap-between-knowledge-policy-and-practice-paperback","title":"Disaster Upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusanna M. Hoffma\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRoberto E. Barrios\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples' culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. \u003cem\u003eDisaster Upon Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRoberto E. Barrios\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During the last twenty years, he has conducted ethnographies of disaster recovery in Honduras, Mexico, New Orleans, Houston, and Southern Illinois. His work focuses on the inherent assumptions about the nature of communities and people embedded in disaster recovery policy, and how disaster survivors interpret, reconfigure, and sometimes resist these assumptions. He is author of \u003cem\u003eGoverning Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction\u003c\/em\u003e and has published various articles in the journals \u003cem\u003eDisasters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnnual Review of Anthropology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIdentities\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHuman Organization\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 03, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713104678975,"sku":"9781789206487","price":61.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fc792edf35a7aec22baad874d0a1b4e9.webp?v=1765063480","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/disaster-upon-disaster-exploring-the-gap-between-knowledge-policy-and-practice-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}