Susanna M Hoffman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 207133 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susanna M Hoffman |
| NOMBRES | Susanna M |
| APELLIDO | Hoffman |
| FIRMA | HOFFMAN S M |
| AFILIACIONES | Hoffman Consulting |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sélection thématique de livres
Repres Events & books Slection thmatique de livresCette rubrique signale des ouvrages rcemment parus.Ils sont classs en trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences.Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre
Cooling Down
Cooling Down
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations a…
“The Worst of Times, the Best of Times”
A great many more people survive catastrophes than are killed by them. When the dust settles, the water recedes, and the ashes take flight in the wind, the survivors are left in pieces. A world that was solid has turned friable. A milieu that functioned has disassembled into silos without seed, roads without terminus, homes no longer standing. A set of meanings and explanations that offered sense has dissolved into detritus as much as has levee a…
Postscript
A common misconception concerning the Greek god Atlas is that he was forced to hold up the Earth forever after he sided with the losing Titans in the war with the victorious Olympians. The “great” traditions also profoundly affect ideologies, cosmologies, structures, rules, and behaviors of people at local levels. Among the great traditions worldwide are Chinese, Indo-European, Arabic, Turkic, Bantu, Southeast Asian, and more, and that people of …
Postscript
The early neglectful treatment of women both leading and subsequent to disaster has thankfully begun to change. One of the first steps was the recognition of women’s legally owned property. This has largely been corrected with women’s homes compensated for in their names alone. The role of age in women’s vulnerability and recovery has emerged. Quite the reverse of expectation, after Hurricane Katrina, evidence shows that older women, long adept a…
The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster 1
People of both genders occupied the same segments of space, public and private arenas, hours of day and night. But for many, progress in carving out new gender behavior suffered a fifty-year setback after the firestorm. The deep grammar of Western society employs a very basic division to sort out people and define the rules, roles, and behavior. It is based on the distinction between male and female. The resurgence of old gender roles after the O…
Postscript
This chapter focuses on the changing nature of hazard vulnerability in California focusing on Southern California. It discusses the changing demographics of the state and in the city of Los Angeles. People’s coping capacities are in turn shaped by multiscale historical, cultural, geographic, and political economic factors that conspire to produce unequal hazard exposure in a given population and that constrain some people’s ability to withstand w…
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth
In 1999, Routledge released the co-edited volume titled The Angry Earth: The Anthropology of Disasters , the first collection of anthropological research on disasters. In a set of contributed chapters, the book explored the phenomena of disasters from their contested definitions to their construction, unfolding, responses, recovery, and effects on communities, all through the theoretical base and substantive knowledge of anthropology. Over the pa…
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth
Disasters sometimes strike with the sudden impact of an earthquake or nuclear meltdown. At other times they accumulate over long periods of time with the slowness of a drought or toxic exposure. In whatever manner they arrive, abrupt or subtle, disasters are all-encompassing occurrences. In their wake they sweep across every aspect of human life: environmental, biological, and sociocultural. The anthropological study of disaster has to date been …
After Atlas Shrugs
The homogenization of human habitat, governmental policies, technology, and culture, combined with the intense exploitation of natural resources, points to less elasticity among humans. The disastrous event is of relatively small scale, narrowly localized, not catastrophic in extent. The impact falls upon proportionally few persons, perhaps an isolated group with a distinct cultural tradition, but more likely a small pocket or vulnerable segment …
Postscript
Understandings in any field, disaster or other, share a common feature. They are from the onset until their very end incomplete. Almost every step into any study leads to as yet unthought of matters. They are not necessarily new insights, rather they are often underlying issues that had so far not been reflected upon. All those who have suffered great loss, such as in a disaster, experience flashbacks, sudden cognitive intrusive memory flares of …
Disaster Upon Disaster
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disas…
Disaster Upon Disaster
The Angry Earth
Disasters and their impact
Disasters arrive in two ways: by rapid onset, as with an earthquake or meltdown; or by slow onset, as with a drought or toxic pollution. Since all disasters derive from human causation, the crux of each comes down to one element: the "fourth" environment, the people&s;s culture. From origin to development, reaction to recovery, culture is the driver that facilitates, frames, and guides disaster. People&s;s prior experiences of disaster also creat…
The question of culture continuity and change after disaster
Anthropologists often struggle with interpreting the extent to which human behavior during and after disasters constitute departures from pre-existing culture, as the issue is both theoretically poignant but also pragmatically critical. When I first wrote about the concern, I offered that the extent to which disasters cause consequential cultural change is largely determined by size or magnitude of the disaster, whether the manifestations of chan…
Becoming a Practicing Disaster Anthropologist
Of Increasing Concern
Keywords: commentary,anthropology trends,disaster,environment,ecology,global warming,cultural-social change,ethics,Hurricane Katrina,ecology and environment
A Response to the Review of “Catastrophe and Culture” by Richard W. Franke
Katrina and Rita
Catastrophe and Culture
The Angry Earth
The question of culture continuity and change after disaster
Anthropologists often struggle with interpreting the extent to which human behavior during and after disasters constitute departures from pre-existing culture, as the issue is both theoretically poignant but also pragmatically critical. When I first wrote about the concern, I offered that the extent to which disasters cause consequential cultural change is largely determined by size or magnitude of the disaster, whether the manifestations of chan…
Of Increasing Concern
Keywords: commentary,anthropology trends,disaster,environment,ecology,global warming,cultural-social change,ethics,Hurricane Katrina,ecology and environment
Katrina and Rita
Catastrophe and Culture
A Response to the Review of “Catastrophe and Culture” by Richard W. Franke
Katrina and Rita
Of Increasing Concern
Keywords: commentary,anthropology trends,disaster,environment,ecology,global warming,cultural-social change,ethics,Hurricane Katrina,ecology and environment
Becoming a Practicing Disaster Anthropologist
Disasters and their impact
Disasters arrive in two ways: by rapid onset, as with an earthquake or meltdown; or by slow onset, as with a drought or toxic pollution. Since all disasters derive from human causation, the crux of each comes down to one element: the "fourth" environment, the people&s;s culture. From origin to development, reaction to recovery, culture is the driver that facilitates, frames, and guides disaster. People&s;s prior experiences of disaster also creat…
The question of culture continuity and change after disaster
Anthropologists often struggle with interpreting the extent to which human behavior during and after disasters constitute departures from pre-existing culture, as the issue is both theoretically poignant but also pragmatically critical. When I first wrote about the concern, I offered that the extent to which disasters cause consequential cultural change is largely determined by size or magnitude of the disaster, whether the manifestations of chan…
“The Worst of Times, the Best of Times”
A great many more people survive catastrophes than are killed by them. When the dust settles, the water recedes, and the ashes take flight in the wind, the survivors are left in pieces. A world that was solid has turned friable. A milieu that functioned has disassembled into silos without seed, roads without terminus, homes no longer standing. A set of meanings and explanations that offered sense has dissolved into detritus as much as has levee a…
Postscript
A common misconception concerning the Greek god Atlas is that he was forced to hold up the Earth forever after he sided with the losing Titans in the war with the victorious Olympians. The “great” traditions also profoundly affect ideologies, cosmologies, structures, rules, and behaviors of people at local levels. Among the great traditions worldwide are Chinese, Indo-European, Arabic, Turkic, Bantu, Southeast Asian, and more, and that people of …
Postscript
The early neglectful treatment of women both leading and subsequent to disaster has thankfully begun to change. One of the first steps was the recognition of women’s legally owned property. This has largely been corrected with women’s homes compensated for in their names alone. The role of age in women’s vulnerability and recovery has emerged. Quite the reverse of expectation, after Hurricane Katrina, evidence shows that older women, long adept a…
The Regenesis of Traditional Gender Patterns in the Wake of Disaster 1
People of both genders occupied the same segments of space, public and private arenas, hours of day and night. But for many, progress in carving out new gender behavior suffered a fifty-year setback after the firestorm. The deep grammar of Western society employs a very basic division to sort out people and define the rules, roles, and behavior. It is based on the distinction between male and female. The resurgence of old gender roles after the O…
Postscript
This chapter focuses on the changing nature of hazard vulnerability in California focusing on Southern California. It discusses the changing demographics of the state and in the city of Los Angeles. People’s coping capacities are in turn shaped by multiscale historical, cultural, geographic, and political economic factors that conspire to produce unequal hazard exposure in a given population and that constrain some people’s ability to withstand w…
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Angry Earth
In 1999, Routledge released the co-edited volume titled The Angry Earth: The Anthropology of Disasters , the first collection of anthropological research on disasters. In a set of contributed chapters, the book explored the phenomena of disasters from their contested definitions to their construction, unfolding, responses, recovery, and effects on communities, all through the theoretical base and substantive knowledge of anthropology. Over the pa…
Introduction to the First Edition. Anthropology and the Angry Earth
Disasters sometimes strike with the sudden impact of an earthquake or nuclear meltdown. At other times they accumulate over long periods of time with the slowness of a drought or toxic exposure. In whatever manner they arrive, abrupt or subtle, disasters are all-encompassing occurrences. In their wake they sweep across every aspect of human life: environmental, biological, and sociocultural. The anthropological study of disaster has to date been …
After Atlas Shrugs
The homogenization of human habitat, governmental policies, technology, and culture, combined with the intense exploitation of natural resources, points to less elasticity among humans. The disastrous event is of relatively small scale, narrowly localized, not catastrophic in extent. The impact falls upon proportionally few persons, perhaps an isolated group with a distinct cultural tradition, but more likely a small pocket or vulnerable segment …
Postscript
Understandings in any field, disaster or other, share a common feature. They are from the onset until their very end incomplete. Almost every step into any study leads to as yet unthought of matters. They are not necessarily new insights, rather they are often underlying issues that had so far not been reflected upon. All those who have suffered great loss, such as in a disaster, experience flashbacks, sudden cognitive intrusive memory flares of …
Disaster Upon Disaster
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disas…
Disaster Upon Disaster
The Angry Earth
Cooling Down
Cooling Down
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. People are responding by adjusting their practices, livelihoods, and cultures, protesting and migrating. This book portrays the diversity of explanations a…
Sélection thématique de livres
Repres Events & books Slection thmatique de livresCette rubrique signale des ouvrages rcemment parus.Ils sont classs en trois catgories : les ouvrages thmatiques par objet d'tude ; les ouvrages sur la science et ses rapports avec la socit ; les ouvrages de rflexion sur les sciences.Pour une description plus dtaille, cliquez sur le titre
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