Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity

ISBN-13: 9780367265915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str.

June Carolyn Erlick

Opis

Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities and the long-term impact on emotional health.

Spis treści

1. Writing Natural Disasters: An Overview  2 Civil Tsunamis and Humanitarian Aid: A Test for Governance  3. Trauma and Collective Memory: A Flood of Emotions  4. Immigration and Diaspora: A Torrent of Dreams  5. Preparation and Recovery in Chile and Cuba: Fissures  6. Lessons and More Fissures: Mexico and Haiti

O autorze

June Carolyn Erlick is the editor-in-chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America and publications director at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of five books, including Telenovelas in Pan-Latino Context (Routledge, 2018). She teaches journalism at Harvard Extension School.