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Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (Under the Sign of Nature)
Kate Rigby
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Description for Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (Under the Sign of Nature)
Hardcover. Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; RNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath.
Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby ... Read more
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath.
Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936888
SKU
V9780813936888
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About Kate Rigby
Kate Rigby, author of Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (Virginia), is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Monash University, Australia.
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