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Imagine Disaster

Author : N. A. Walker
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1038307414
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Imagine Disaster written by N. A. Walker and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when much of what you've built up over the last five years is suddenly destroyed in an earthquake? With their home gone, Pirrul's desire for another baby must go on the back burner. Who's in charge? Eiric thinks it should be him. What do they do with a dead body? Nobody in this community of young people has a clue, and they are all reeling with shock. And where are they all going to sleep? Five years earlier, this intrepid group of teens set out from the human colony on the planet they call Imagine, to build their own self-sufficient community. But even with the help of the friendly, furry alien Climbers, and the telepathic Pankun trees, they are still dependent on the main colony for some things. However when they turn to them for help, they find the main colony has also suffered loss, and the new leadership there is not friendly. Tensions are building and the Colonists are organizing against the Officers. Can the humans learn to work together in order to survive?

Cinematic Encounters with Disaster

Author : Simon R. Troon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Encounters with Disaster written by Simon R. Troon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic Encounters with Disaster takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory that works toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. It examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries from the US and elsewhere, and auteurist-realist cinema from Europe and Asia. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that often inform thinking about cinema, this book contends that different approaches to film style can push us to imagine disaster in distinct ways, with distinct ethical connotations. Framed by contemporary concerns around the global climate crisis and the advent of the Anthropocene, questions about how films can best offer responses to historical exigency guide the book's explorations of spectacular 2010s blockbusters like Gravity (2013) and San Andreas (2015), environmental documentaries including the paradigmatic An Inconvenient Truth (2006), post-disaster films by auteurs including Abbas Kiarostami and Lav Diaz, and more. Conceiving of disaster as intersubjective ethics between humans and nonhuman alterity – forces of nature, errant technology, monsters, ghosts, and other entities – it analyses how formal techniques and narrative strategies render encounters in which human protagonists are confronted with the threat of death and respond in ways that can be instructive for our planet's present juncture.

How and to what Effect Do Science Fiction Texts Imagine Disaster?

Author :
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346157598
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book How and to what Effect Do Science Fiction Texts Imagine Disaster? written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Birmingham City University, language: English, abstract: This essay aims at calling attention to the ravages of power relationships, which drive disaster and subsequently the ascendance of dystopian/post-apocalyptic worlds in the texts chosen. “All responsible writers have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind; but science fiction more so, since science fiction has always been a protest medium” , the renowned author Philip K. Dick commented on the purpose of writing science fiction. Science fiction offers writers a platform to emphasise and magnify social inequalities, target issues, identify victims and encourage change. The texts discussed in this essay include: Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” which tells of a technically elaborate house that seems to be the lone ‘survivor’ after an atomic blast; Philip K. Dick’s novel The Man in the High Castle that imagines a world in which the Axis powers triumph over the Allies and totalitarianism is established as the prevailing governmental system; and third, Raccoona Sheldon’s short story “The Screwfly Solution” which describes the devastating effects of a pandemic that causes men to kill off womankind. First, the terminology relevant to this essay will be established in order to provide a better understanding of the terms used. As the function of this essay is to analyse how and to what effect science fiction texts imagine disaster, the main part will be divided into two sections. In the first section, the portrayal of disasters in the three texts will be explored by looking into the power relations which inform the conflicts. In the second part, the effect of the emergence of dystopia will be discussed by reflecting about the texts’ intentions. The main ideas will be summarised in a final conclusion.

Imaging Disaster

Author : Gennifer Weisenfeld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954246
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Imaging Disaster written by Gennifer Weisenfeld and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation—the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923—this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketching, urban planning, and even scientific visualizations, Weisenfeld demonstrates how visual culture has powerfully mediated the evolving historical understanding of this major national disaster, ultimately enfolding mourning and memory into modernization.

Just Imagine! Date With Disaster - Class Pack, Grade 6-12

Author : Mir Tamim Ansary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780825151989
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Just Imagine! Date With Disaster - Class Pack, Grade 6-12 written by Mir Tamim Ansary and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Date With Disaster

Author : Darlene Ivy
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825149832
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Date With Disaster written by Darlene Ivy and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivate reluctant readers with tales of high drama and adventure! Date With Disaster Teacher's Guide contains reproducibles for reinforcement, enrichment, and vocabulary development. Teacher's Guide covers: Escape! Survivors Close Calls Nature's Wrath Disasters

Date With Disaster

Author : Walch Publishing
Publisher : Walch Education
ISBN 13 : 9780825151415
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Date With Disaster written by Walch Publishing and published by Walch Education. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivate reluctant readers with tales of high drama and adventure! Engages all students with easy-to-read, high-interest stories Builds reading comprehension, critical-thinking, and vocabulary skills Teacher's guide available separately Set includes 1 each: Escape! Survivors Close Call Nature's Wrath Disasters

Worst Cases

Author : Lee Clarke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226108597
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Worst Cases written by Lee Clarke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane: very real threats like a killer flu or an American Hiroshima have become so common that they have lost their ability to shock us. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, are often completely sensible: when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings it will take worst cases as seriously as it should.

The Future as Catastrophe

Author : Eva Horn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231188623
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book The Future as Catastrophe written by Eva Horn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.

How to Imagine the End of the World

Author : Amanda Chien Ong (Ph.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book How to Imagine the End of the World written by Amanda Chien Ong (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative fiction, a genre rooted in envisioning the future, is an ideal site through which we can both investigate the limitations of our imaginations and study authors who provide more liberatory constructions of alternative futures. In this project, I explore how disaster is a purposeful feature of neoliberalism that allows for constant capitalization and profiting from destruction. Specifically, my dissertation examines representations of disasters from the 1990s on to show how disaster can use spectacle to represent economic anxieties while also a form of creative destruction that clears the ground for more radical ways of envisioning the future. Then, I engage with neoliberalism not just as an economic system but a form of governmentality that creates new subjectivities. Imagining new futures outside of neoliberalism is therefore not just a matter of envisioning an alternative economic system but also conceiving of radical relational models that go beyond the neoliberal focus on individual exceptionalism and personal responsibility. I highlight the various sociopolitical moments and historical contexts of each text in order to demonstrate how speculative fiction, even with its emphasis on futurity, is also always engaging with issues and anxieties of the present day. Specifically, my last two chapters turn toward 1990s Los Angeles as a case study that exemplifies the economic impact of globalization and subsequent deindustrialization. Additionally, the city's diverse and multicultural population as well as its natural disaster prone geography make it a generative site through which to analyze how uneven geographical development can cause the effects of disaster to be distributed in varying ways.

Critical Disaster Studies

Author : Jacob A.C. Remes
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299728
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Critical Disaster Studies written by Jacob A.C. Remes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions—and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, critical disaster studies reveals the stakes of defining people or places as vulnerable, resilient, or at risk. As social constructs, disaster, vulnerability, resilience, and risk shape and are shaped by contests over power. Managers and technocrats often herald the goals of disaster response and recovery as objective, quantifiable, or self-evident. In reality, the goals are subjective, and usually contested. Critical disaster studies attends to the ways powerful people often use claims of technocratic expertise to maintain power. Moreover, rather than existing as isolated events, disasters take place over time. People commonly imagine disasters to be unexpected and sudden, making structural conditions appear contingent, widespread conditions appear local, and chronic conditions appear acute. By placing disasters in broader contexts, critical disaster studies peels away that veneer. With chapters by scholars of five continents and seven disciplines, Critical Disaster Studies asks how disasters come to be known as disasters, how disasters are used as tools of governance and politics, and how people imagine and anticipate disasters. The volume will be of interest to scholars of disaster in any discipline and especially to those teaching the growing number of courses on disaster studies.

Documenting Aftermath

Author : Megan Finn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262552752
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Documenting Aftermath written by Megan Finn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people's experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989. When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may look to the United States Geological Survey for online maps that show the quake's epicenter, turn to Twitter for government bulletins and the latest news, check Facebook for updates from friends and family, and count on help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). One hundred and fifty years ago, however, FEMA and other government agencies did not exist, and information came by telegraph and newspaper. In Documenting Aftermath, Megan Finn explores changing public information infrastructures and how they shaped people's experience of disaster, examining postearthquake information and communication practices in three Northern California earthquakes: the 1868 Hayward Fault earthquake, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. She then analyzes the institutions, policies, and technologies that shape today's postdisaster information landscape. Finn argues that information orders—complex constellations of institutions, technologies, and practices—influence how we act in, experience, and document events. What Finn terms event epistemologies, constituted both by historical documents and by researchers who study them, explain how information orders facilitate particular possibilities for knowledge. After the 1868 earthquake, the Chamber of Commerce telegraphed reassurances to out-of-state investors while local newspapers ran sensational earthquake narratives; in 1906, families and institutions used innovative techniques for locating people; and in 1989, government institutions and the media developed a symbiotic relationship in information dissemination. Today, government disaster response plans and new media platforms imagine different sources of informational authority yet work together shaping disaster narratives.

Civil Imagination

Author : Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178478303X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Civil Imagination written by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in focus from product to practice, outlined in Civil Imagination, brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted. Through photography, Civil Imagination seeks out relations of partnership, solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that the “civil” must be distinguished from the “political” as the interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create and transform. Azoulay’s book sketches out a new horizon of civil living for citizens as well as subjects denied citizenship—inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to imagine anew and to reconstruct. Beautifully produced with many illustrations, Civil Imagination is a provocative argument for photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.

Close Calls

Author : Darlene Ivy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780825149634
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Close Calls written by Darlene Ivy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Disaster Recovery Handbook

Author : Michael Wallace
Publisher : AMACOM
ISBN 13 : 0814438776
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Disaster Recovery Handbook written by Michael Wallace and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is an unpredictable place. While you cannot predict or prevent disasters, you can prepare for them with effort and planning. A quick survey of the headlines for any given day in the twenty-first century will highlight global market-affecting disasters such as superstorms, data breaches, pandemics, system failures, and strikes. With the detailed guidance found in the thoroughly updated version of this handbook, your company’s survival and the speedy resumption of business is all but assured. In The Disaster Recovery Handbook, you will learn how to proactively: Assess risk Create and document recovery procedures Assemble a disaster team Test and debug thoroughly Safeguard vital records, and more! With The Disaster Recovery Handbook by your side--including the third edition’s updates of emerging risks, developments in IT networking, and information security--you can learn how to avoid a great deal of potential trouble for your organization. When unavoidable, unpredictable disasters occur, you will know that you have planned for every contingency and have ensured that your company is responsible, ready, and resilient.

Island

Author : Patrick Downes
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773061933
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Island written by Patrick Downes and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenaged boy struggles as he watches his family and relationships fracture after the death of his mother, and is now faced with the terrible possibility that his twin brother may have just killed their father. Seventeen-year-old Rad comes home to find his father lying broken and dead at the bottom of the ravine behind their house. Rad’s twin brother, shaken but very much alive, had watched their father fall. Desperate to understand what has happened before calling the police, Rad confronts his brother and the complicated landscape of their past. He reconstructs not just the circumstances leading to his father’s death, but the history of his family. How can a family simply disintegrate? Were they ever happy, or were the roots of unhappiness always there? What plagued his father? What plagues Rad? As the time comes to do the right thing, the question remains. Did his brother kill their father? And what will happen to the boys now?

Handbook of Disaster Research

Author : Havidan Rodriguez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387323538
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Disaster Research written by Havidan Rodriguez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-14 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook is based on the principle that disasters are social constructions and focuses on social science disaster research. It provides an interdisciplinary approach to disasters with theoretical, methodological, and practical applications. Attention is given to conceptual issues dealing with the concept "disaster" and to methodological issues relating to research on disasters. These include Geographic Information Systems as a useful research tool and its implications for future research. This seminal work is the first interdisciplinary collection of disaster research as it stands now while outlining how the field will continue to grow.