Scott Gabriel Knowles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5532444 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Scott Gabriel Knowles |
| PRENOMES | Scott Gabriel |
| SOBRENOME | Knowles |
| ASSINATURA | KNOWLES S G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Crows of Jeju
Julia F. Irwin. Catastrophic Diplomacy
In Covid Times
This essay builds on the exciting trove of disaster social science research surfacing since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tracks the ways that both practitioners of medicine and public health, and their social science analogues, have approached the pandemic, explicitly considering the ways they reached for new concepts to explain the temporal phenomena presented by COVID-19 and its global course. The essay highlights a series of …
Coronalag
This paper introduces the idea of Coronalag, a concept derived from the experience of disaster time in 2020, and one that we hope assists in the ongoing interrogation of time as a venue for the exercise of power in a disaster. First, in introducing Coronalag, we are attentive to disparate experiences of the pandemic across spaces and communities, shared in and among those settings in real time, often through social and other virtual media. Next, …
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment
Looking at the pandemic in the long historical view of “slow disasters” shows how it is a continuation of previous health emergencies rather than a discrete event. The tendency of politicians to prematurely declare an end to the pandemic has not helped improve public trust in health policy
Covid Mask Wearing
Disaster (continued)
The Special Investigation Commission on the 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster offers a case in which the process of disaster investigation becomes a part, even a continuation, of the disaster for which it is created to bring closure. Placing the investigation in a longer temporality reveals obscured historical factors that shaped the investigation and its aftermath in surprising and crucial ways. Throughout the highly politicized process of deciding to i…
Legacies of Fukushima
In Legacies of Fukushima , contributors, drawn from the realms of journalism and academia, science policy and citizen science, activism and governance, contextualize 3.11 through the lens of critical disaster studies.
The Voyage of the Paragon
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene…
The Disaster Experts
Troubled Waters
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)-an
Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers
Journal Article Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Get access Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 348. $35.00. Scott Gabriel Knowles Scott Gabriel Knowles Drexel University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April …
The Disaster Experts
This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts—specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable—revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America
Imagining Philadelphia
In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Bicentennial celebration and Philadelphia World's Fair. Imagining Philadelphia assesses Bacon's vision, discussing what has been accomplished and what might have been.
Asbestos and Fire
Reviewed by: Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk. By Rachel Maines . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+254. $34.95. December 7, 1946, with memories of Pearl Harbor and all the other terrors of World War II still fresh, a fire broke out at Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel, rapidly consuming the building, kill…
City in the Sky (review)
Reviewed by: City in the Sky Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) City in the Sky. By James Glanz and Eric Lipton. New York: Times Books, 2003. Pp. 428. $26. In 1977, a 27-year-old toymaker from Queens named George H. Willig scaled the 1,362-foot South Tower of the World Trade Center. "It's a very appealing wall," said this "human fly," as he was immediately dubbed, when asked what had gotten into him. "It looked unscalable—I thought I'd like to try it" (…
Lessons in the rubble
The World Trade Center collapse stands as a singular event in American history. As such, it might also stand to reason that the technical investigation into the circumstances of the collapse also stands alone. Clashes over authority among powerful institutions both public and private, competition among rival experts for influence, inquiry into a disaster elevated to the status of a memorial for the dead: these are the base elements of the World T…
Troubled Waters
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)-an
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene…
Lessons in the rubble
The World Trade Center collapse stands as a singular event in American history. As such, it might also stand to reason that the technical investigation into the circumstances of the collapse also stands alone. Clashes over authority among powerful institutions both public and private, competition among rival experts for influence, inquiry into a disaster elevated to the status of a memorial for the dead: these are the base elements of the World T…
City in the Sky (review)
Reviewed by: City in the Sky Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) City in the Sky. By James Glanz and Eric Lipton. New York: Times Books, 2003. Pp. 428. $26. In 1977, a 27-year-old toymaker from Queens named George H. Willig scaled the 1,362-foot South Tower of the World Trade Center. "It's a very appealing wall," said this "human fly," as he was immediately dubbed, when asked what had gotten into him. "It looked unscalable—I thought I'd like to try it" (…
Asbestos and Fire
Reviewed by: Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk Scott Gabriel Knowles (bio) Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-Offs and the Body at Risk. By Rachel Maines . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+254. $34.95. December 7, 1946, with memories of Pearl Harbor and all the other terrors of World War II still fresh, a fire broke out at Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel, rapidly consuming the building, kill…
Imagining Philadelphia
In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Bicentennial celebration and Philadelphia World's Fair. Imagining Philadelphia assesses Bacon's vision, discussing what has been accomplished and what might have been.
The Disaster Experts
This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts—specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable—revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America
Troubled Waters
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)-an
Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers
Journal Article Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Get access Deborah R. Coen. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Pp. 348. $35.00. Scott Gabriel Knowles Scott Gabriel Knowles Drexel University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April …
The Disaster Experts
Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene
Despite their seeming reluctance to engage in the politics of the now, historians have a crucial role to play as witnesses to climate change and its attendant social injustices. Climate change is a product of industrialization, but its effects are known in different geographical and temporal scales through the compilation and analysis of historical narratives. This essay explores modes of thinking about disasters and temporality, the Anthropocene…
Legacies of Fukushima
In Legacies of Fukushima , contributors, drawn from the realms of journalism and academia, science policy and citizen science, activism and governance, contextualize 3.11 through the lens of critical disaster studies.
The Voyage of the Paragon
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment
Looking at the pandemic in the long historical view of “slow disasters” shows how it is a continuation of previous health emergencies rather than a discrete event. The tendency of politicians to prematurely declare an end to the pandemic has not helped improve public trust in health policy
Covid Mask Wearing
Disaster (continued)
The Special Investigation Commission on the 4/16 Sewol Ferry Disaster offers a case in which the process of disaster investigation becomes a part, even a continuation, of the disaster for which it is created to bring closure. Placing the investigation in a longer temporality reveals obscured historical factors that shaped the investigation and its aftermath in surprising and crucial ways. Throughout the highly politicized process of deciding to i…
Coronalag
This paper introduces the idea of Coronalag, a concept derived from the experience of disaster time in 2020, and one that we hope assists in the ongoing interrogation of time as a venue for the exercise of power in a disaster. First, in introducing Coronalag, we are attentive to disparate experiences of the pandemic across spaces and communities, shared in and among those settings in real time, often through social and other virtual media. Next, …
In Covid Times
This essay builds on the exciting trove of disaster social science research surfacing since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tracks the ways that both practitioners of medicine and public health, and their social science analogues, have approached the pandemic, explicitly considering the ways they reached for new concepts to explain the temporal phenomena presented by COVID-19 and its global course. The essay highlights a series of …
The Crows of Jeju
Julia F. Irwin. Catastrophic Diplomacy
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