Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery

Laura Centemeri is Senior Researcher in Environmental Sociology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS-EHESS), France.Sezin Topçu is Senior Researcher in Science and Technology Studies at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Social Movements (CEMS-EHESS), France.J. Peter Burgess is Professor and Director of the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk at École Normale Supérieure, France.

• Introduction: Recovery, Resilience and Repairing - For a Non-Reductionist Approach to the Complexity of Post-Disaster Situations Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu and J. Peter Burgess Part I: Repairing Slow Disasters 1. The Economy of Compensation and the Struggle for Reparation: The case of Formosa Plastics in Taiwan Paul Jobin 2. Repairing the Ir-repairable: ‘Geo-biological’ Recovery of Environments after a Nuclear Disaster Sezin Topçu 3. After the (Green) Revolution Comes (Ecological) Restoration: Scientists and Peasants in Pontal do Paranapanema, Brazil Daniel Delatin Rodrigues Part II: Everyday Life, Justice and Memories in Recovery after Disasters 4. Repairing as Struggle for Narrative Justice. The Dam Failure of Vega de Tera, Spain (1959-2019) Santiago Gorostiza and Marco Armiero 5. Preparing for Future Pandemics and Repairing Vulnerable Environments: Consequences of the 1997 Bird Flu Outbreak in Hong Kong Frédéric Keck 6. Broken Techno-Ecological Systems and Art as Reparative Gestures Line Marie Thorsen 7. Plurality of Temporalities, Complexity and Contingency in Repairing after Dam Failures in Minas Gerais Francis Chateauraynaud and Josquin Debaz Part III: The Role of Law in Repairing Environments 8. A Green Criminological Approach to Environmental Victimisation and Reparation. A Case for Environmental Restorative Justice Lorenzo Natali and Matthew Hall 9. Reenact, Commemorate and Make Amends after Storm Xynthia Through a Judicial Dispositif Sandrine Revet 10. Victims and the Ecologies of Reparation Dispositifs in the Contaminated Growth Hormone Case: Comparative Perspectives on Recovery after a Health Disaster Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier 11. Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective - between theory and practice Laura Centemeri, J. Peter Burgess and Sezin Topçu

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