Governing Disasters

1. Introduction
Sandrine Revet, Julien Langumier

Part 1. Anticipation, Preparedness, and Controversies

2. Governing by Hazard: Controlling Mudslides and Promoting Tourism in the Mountains above Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), 1966–1977
Marc Elie

3. Monitoring Animals, Preparing Humans: An Ethnographical Study of Avian Influenza
Frédéric Keck

Part 2. Participation and Consultation

4. Cultivating Communities after Disaster: A Whirlwind of Generosity on the Coasts of Sri Lanka
Mara Benadusi

5. A Critical Look at the “Risk Culture”: France’s “Plan Rhône”
Julien Langumier

Part 3. Issues of Memory

6. Memory and Methodology: Translocal and Transtemporal Fieldwork in Post-Disaster Santa Fe (Argentina)
Susann Baez Ullberg

7. Investigating the “Discrete Memory” of the Seveso Disaster in Italy
Laura Centemeri

8. Postscript: Thinking (by way of) Disaster
Nicolas Dodier

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Policy, Social Work and Community Development, Social Structure, Social Inequality