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Catastrophes in Context

Vol. 2

DISASTER UPON DISASTER

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Roberto E. Barrios

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 Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field. Read more.

Introduction

NOW OPEN ACCESS

Vol. 1

CONTEXTUALIZING DISASTER

Edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller

" The eight book chapters offer new and innovative analysis of recent disasters that to varying degrees are all translocal, and each chapter is carried by its own 'narrative.' The book provides a fresh impetus not only for disaster scholars but also for DRR institutions and media. " • Anthropos

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CATASTROPHES IN CONTEXT SERIES

Editors:

Gregory V. Button, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Anthony Oliver-Smith, University of Florida

Mark Schuller, Northern Illinois University

Catastrophes in Context aims to bring critical attention to the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that create disasters, out of natural hazards or political events, and that shape the responses. Combining long-term ethnographic fieldwork typical of anthropology and increasingly adopted in similar social science disciplines such as geography and sociology with a comparative frame that enlightens global structures and policy frameworks, Catastrophes in Context includes monographs and edited volumes that bring critical scrutiny to the multiple dimensions of specific disasters and important policy/practice questions for the field of disaster research and management.

Life Course, Culture and Aging:

Global Transformations

Vol. 5

THE GLOBAL AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY MOVEMENT

A Critical Appraisal

Edited by Philip B. Stafford

" Provides an excellent critical appraisal of the challenges, successes, theoretical models and their practical applicability in the building of

age-friendly communities. ” • Anthropology & Aging

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FORTHCOMING JULY 2020

Vol. 6

BEYOND FILIAL PIETY

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Edited by Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore and Hong Zhang

Marshalling mixed methods data, this volume explores the complexities of aging and caregiving in contemporary East Asia. Questioning romantic visions of a senior’s paradise, chapters examine emerging cultural meanings of and social responses to population aging, including caregiving both for and by the elderly. Read more.

LIFE COURSE, CULTURE AND AGING: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS SERIES

Published by Berghahn Books under the auspices of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE) and the American Anthropological Association Interest Group on Aging

and the Life Course.

General Editor:

Jay Sokolovsky, University of South Florida St. Petersburg

The consequences of aging will influence most areas of contemporary life around the globe, from the makeup of households and communities and systems of care to attitudes toward health, disability and life’s end. Engaging a cross-cultural framework, this series publishes monographs and collected works that examine these widespread transformations with a perspective on the entire life course and a particular focus on mid/late adulthood.

Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality:

Social and Cultural Perspectives

NEW

Vol. 45

NAVIGATING MISCARRIAGE

Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg

Contributors use rich ethnographic and historical material to discuss how pregnancy loss is managed and negotiated in a range of societies. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived. Read more.

FORTHCOMING MAY 2020

Vol. 46

ABORTION IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY TUNISIA

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Irene Maffi

This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body, sexuality, reproduction and gender relationships. It also investigates how the bureaucratic apparatus of government healthcare facilities affects the complex moral world of clinicians and patients. Read more.

FERTILITY, REPRODUCTION AND SEXUALITY:

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES SERIES

Editors:

Soraya Tremayne , Founding Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and Research Associate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

Marcia C. Inhorn , William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs,

Yale University

Philip Kreager , Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, and Research Associate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford

This series includes studies by specialists in the field of social, cultural, medical, and biological anthropology, medical demography, psychology, and development studies. Current debates and issues of global relevance on the changing dynamics of fertility, human reproduction and sexuality are addressed.