Berghahn Series
Catastrophes in Context
Series Editors:
Roberto E. Barrios, Doris Zemurray Stone Chair of Latin American Studies and Professor of Anthropology, University of New Orleans
Crystal Felima, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky
Mark Schuller, Professor, Anthropology and Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies, Northern Illinois University
Catastrophes in Context aims to bring critical attention to the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that create disasters, out of natural hazards or political events, and that shape the responses. Combining long-term ethnographic fieldwork typical of anthropology and increasingly adopted in similar social science disciplines such as geography and sociology with a comparative frame that enlightens global structures and policy frameworks, Catastrophes in Context includes monographs and edited volumes that bring critical scrutiny to the multiple dimensions of specific disasters and important policy/practice questions for the field of disaster research and management. Theoretically innovative, our goal is to publish readable, lucid texts to be accessible to a wide range of audiences across academic disciplines and specifically practitioners and policymakers.
For more information about this series and information about submissions, please consult this guide.
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Volume 8
Capitalism and Catastrophe
A Critical Disaster Studies Manifesto
Raja Swamy
Published: 2025 -
Volume 7
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience
Case Studies from the African Diaspora
Edited by Pamela Waldron-Moore
Published: 2023 -
Volume 6
The Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Edited by Vincent Joos, Martin Munro, and John Ribó
Published: 2023 -
Volume 5
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Jane Murphy Thomas
Published: 2022 -
Volume 4
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Stephen O. Bender
Published: 2021 -
Volume 3
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Edited by Felix Riede and Payson Sheets
Published: 2020 -
Volume 2
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios
Published: 2019 -
Volume 1
Contextualizing Disaster
Edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller
Published: 2016