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Disaster education : 'race', equity and pedagogy

Title
Disaster education : 'race', equity and pedagogy / John Preston.
Author
Preston, John, 1967-
Publication
  • Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2012]
  • ©2012

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Description
vii, 120 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Emergency management > Study and teaching
  • Disasters > Study and teaching > Social aspects
  • Disasters in literature
  • Nuclear warfare > Study and teaching > Social aspects
  • Afrofuturism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
What is disaster education? -- Social justice, whiteness and disaster education -- Mass public education for preparing for nuclear war : from duck and cover to protect and survive -- Dr. Strangelove I presume? race, class and tacit intentionality in public education campaigns for nuclear war -- Citizenship education and 'infrastructure protection' -- Apocalypse now : Eurocentric fictions and Afrofuturist reflections on nuclear war -- Fixed and mobile bodies : mass casuality plans and survivalism for 'dirty bomb' attacks -- Transmedia, transhumanism and the 'new' preparedness paradigm -- Remaking, rethinking and resisting disaster education.
Call Number
Sc E 21-1524
ISBN
  • 9460918719
  • 9789460918711
  • 9460918727
  • 9789460918728
OCLC
809910908
Author
Preston, John, 1967- author.
Title
Disaster education : 'race', equity and pedagogy / John Preston.
Publisher
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
AUTH: UNIV EAST LONDON. ANALYZES CIVIL DEFENCE ED.IN US (1950S) & UK (1980S) USING CRITICAL RACE TH.
Research Call Number
Sc E 21-1524
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