TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bandopadhyay,Saptarishi
TI  - All is well: catastrophe and the making of the normal state 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197579220
AV  - HV551.2 .B36 2022
U1  - 363.348 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social services & welfare, criminology
KW  - thema
N1  - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Disasters are commonly understood as exceptional occurences that destroy human life, property, and resources. But what is the relationship between such occurences and modern states responsible for guarding society against them? Saptarishi Bandopadhyay argues that disasters are artifacts of 'normal' rule. They result from the same, mundane strategies of knowledge-making, and violence by which authorities, experts, and people struggle to develop state-like power, to define and defend the social order. Drawing on three case studies, Bandopadhyay examines 18th-century exercises in catastrophe conservation and state formation, and shows how the underlying beliefs and resulting insights shape contemporary narratives, norms, and practices of global disaster management
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197579190.001.0001
ER  -