"Beyond "natural-disasters-are-not-natural
The work of state and nature after the 2010 earthquake in Chile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jouko Remes (0000-0002-9109-1918, Empire State University), Jacob Remes, Kevin Gould (Concordia University, corresponding author), M Garcia (0000-0002-2070-537X, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1073-0451 • E-ISSN: 1073-0451 |
| Publisher | University of Arizona (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2458/v23i1.20181 |
| OpenAlex | W2618955586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 36 |
Since the 1970s, human ecologists, geographers, Marxian political economists and others have insisted that there is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster. This assertion opened a space not only for exploring socioeconomic conditions that render marginalized populations vulnerable to natural hazards, but also for the formation of a field, the political ecology of hazards. A few political ecologists further interrogated the idea of a natural disaster, asking how different notions of 'the natural' circulate in post-disaster politics and with what effects. This article extends the latter approach by documenting how interconnected categories of 'nature' and 'state' were mutually constituted by narratives of politicians and elites after Chile's 2010 earthquake and tsunami. Drawing on media reports, we identify three distinct pairings of state/nature: (1) nature as manageable and the state as manager; (2) nature as out of control and the state as a police state; and (3) nature as financial opportunity and the state as prudential. Influenced by socioeconomic and historical factors, these state/nature pairings contradicted and reinforced one another in the disaster's aftermath and were deployed to reinforce top-down-rather than democratic-strategies of post-disaster reconstruction. This case offers an unusual approach to disaster politics by tracing how entwined and power-laden categories of state and nature condition the governance of disaster reconstruction processes
Assertion · Natural hazard · Political ecology · State of nature · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |