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The Spatial Dimension of Risk
Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and state failure. Case studies range from the Congo to Central Asia, from tsunami in Japan and civil war affected areas in Sri Lanka to avalanche hazards in Austria. In each of these cases, the authors examine the importance and role of space in the causes and differentiation of risk, in how we can conceptualize risk from a spatial perspective and in the relevance of space and locality for risk governance. This new approach - endorsed by Ragnar Löfstedt and Ortwin Renn, two of the world's leading and most prolific risk analysts - is essential reading for those charged with studying, anticipating and managing risks.
Spatial Practices
In Spatial Practices: Territory, Border and Infrastructure in Africa research findings from a truly inter-disciplinary research project on new spatial practices in Africa and their ordering effects on social relations are introduced.
Von Dir, von Mir, für Dich
Diese Sammlung meines Vaters soll Erinnerungen wecken, zum Nachdenken anregen, Frohlichkeit hervorrufen und eine Danksagung an einen wertvollen Menschen sein. Fur jeden soll es verdeutlichen, wie wertvoll die Familie und wie wichtig die Liebe ist. Ohne Liebe kann man nicht glucklich werden und ohne Liebe wird man einsam. Mit menschlicher Fantasie und von Eindrucken gepragt, schreibt mein Vater in den 70er/80er Jahren alles was ihm in den Sinn kommt und entdeckt seine Leidenschaft zum Schreiben. Fur alle die ihn kannten ist es eine Uberraschung, fur alle die ihn nie kennenlernen konnten eine Bereicherung."
African Futures
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various socia...
The Politics of Uncertainty
Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking, insurance, technology regulation and critical infrastructures, as well as climate change, infectious disease responses, natural disasters, migration, crime and security and spirituality and religion. The book argues that uncertainties must be understood as complex constructions of knowledge, materiality, experience, embodiment and practice. Examining in particular how uncertainties are experienced in contexts of marginalisation and precarity, this book shows how sustainability and development are not just technical issues, but depend...
Pokot Pastoralism
Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects.
The Kenyan Cut Flower Industry and Global Market Dynamics
Investigates the production, trade and consumption of the bouquets sold in European supermarkets and the consequences of this for the globalised economy.
Environmental Change and African Societies
The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.
