Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises : Everyday Politics of Crisis Response

ISBN-13: 9780415640824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str.

Dorothea Hilhorst

Opis

This text provides a qualitative inquiry into the social and political dynamics of local institutional response, international policy and aid interventions in crises caused by conflict or natural disaster. Emphasising the importance of everyday practices, it qualitatively unravels the social and political working of policies, aid programmes and local institutions.

Spis treści

1. Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises: Everyday politics of crisis response Dorothea Hilhorst  2. Discourses of War, Peace and Peace-building in Sri Lanka Georg Frerks  3. The Political History of Disaster Management in Mozambique Luis Artur  4. The De-Disasterization of Food Crises: Structural reproduction or change in policy development and response options? A case study from Ethiopia Jan-Gerrit van Uffelen  5. The Politics of "Catastrophization" Jeroen Warner  6. Conflict, Governance and Institutional Multiplicity: Parallel governance in Kosovo and Chiapas (Mexico) Gemma van der Haar and Merel Heijke  7. Two Decades of Ordering Refugees: The development of institutional multiplicity in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp Bram Jansen  8. Conflict Minerals in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Planned interventions and unexpected outcomes Jeroen Cuvelier  9. Institutional Multiplicity in Post-conflict Reconstruction: The case of a local church in Bunjei, Angola Maliana Serrano  10. Flying Below the Radar: Inter-ethnic marriages in Sri Lanka’s war zone Timmo Gaasbeek 11. Humanitarian Space as Arena: A perspective on the everyday politics of aid Dorothea Hilhorst and Bram J. Jansen  12. The Politics of Peacebuilding through Strengthening Civil Society  Mathijs van Leeuwen  13. The Everyday Politics of Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Java, Indonesia Annelies Heijmans  14. Post-Conflict Recovery and Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development in Angola: From crisis to normality? Hilde van Dijkhorst  15. Doing good / Being Nice? Aid legitimacy and mutual imaging of aid workers and aid recipients. Dorothea Hilhorst, Gemma Andriessen, Lotte Kemkens and Loes Weijers

O autorze

Dorothea Hilhorst is Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction at Wageningen University.