Research Catalog

Title

Disasters, vulnerability, and narratives : writing Haiti's futures / Kasia Mika.

Author

Mika, Kasia

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

ix, 233 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and individual dimensions of the earthquake. This book focuses on a vision of an open-ended future, otherwise than as a threat or fear. Mika turns to concepts of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling. Weaving theory with attentive close-readings, the book offers an open-ended framework for conceptualising post-disaster recovery and healing. These processes happen at different times and must entail the elimination of compound vulnerabilities that created the disaster in the first place. Challenging characterisations of the region as a continuous catastrophe this book works towards a bold vision of Haiti's and the Caribbean's futures. The study shows how narratives can extend some of the key concepts within discipline-bound approaches to disasters, while making an important contribution to the interface between disaster studies, postcolonial ecocriticism and Haitian Studies.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk and climate change

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change.

Subjects

• Haiti
• Emergency medical services
• Emergency medical services > Haiti
• Earthquakes > Haiti
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Haiti > Politics and government > 21st century
• Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 > Personal narratives
• Haiti > Social conditions > 1971-
• Black author
• Since 1971
• Disaster relief > Haiti
• Humanitarian assistance > Haiti
• Haiti Earthquake (2010)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-225) and index.

Call Number

Sc E 18-974

ISBN

• 9781138300750
• 1138300756

OCLC

1049289884

Author

Mika, Kasia, author.

Title

Disasters, vulnerability, and narratives : writing Haiti's futures / Kasia Mika.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk and climate change

Routledge studies in hazards, disaster risk, and climate change.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-225) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1971

Local Subject

Black author.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Mika, Kasia. Disasters, vulnerability, and narratives. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781351403030 (OCoLC)1046071035

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-974