Ojämlikhet, kris och naturkatastrofer

Böcker och bokkapitel 

Beck, Ulrich (2009). World At Risk. Cambridge, Malden, Polity Press. 1st Edition. Chapter 1 and 10.

Bizzarri, Mariangela (2012) “Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Natural and Man-Made Disasters,” in Andrea de Guttry, Marco Gestri and Gabriella Venturini (eds.) International Disaster Response Law, 381-414. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.

Bradshaw, Sarah, Brian Linneker, and Lisa Overton (2022) “Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability”, in Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst (eds). Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation, 51-67. London: Routledge.

Carmalt, Jean Conolly and Claudine Haenni Dale (2012) “Human rights and disaster,” in Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard and Ilan Kelman (eds.) Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction, chapter 16. London: Routledge.

Conley, Bridget, Alex De Waal, Catriona Murdoch, and Wayne Jordash QC. (2022) Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law. Oxford University Press. 1 chapter.

Cropp, Joe (2021) The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars. Abingdon: Routledge.

Eggers, Dave (2009) Zeitoun. San Francisco: McSweeney’s.

Ferguson, James (2015) Give a man a fish: Reflections on the new politics of distribution. Durham Duke University Press. (2-3 chapters)

Hellberg S., Söderbaum F., Swain, A. and Öjendal, J. (2024) “Introduction: The Water-Development Nexus,” in Hellberg S., Söderbaum F., Swain, A., and Öjendal, J. (2024) The Routledge Handbook of Water and Development, Routledge.

Hickel, Jason (2018) The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Market.New York: Norton. (2-3 chapters)

Piketty, Thomas (2022) A Brief History of Inequality. Harvard: Belknap Press. Translated by Steven Rendall.

Roitman, Janet (2012) “Crisis”. In Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, edited by Adi Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler and J. Bernstein. Available via: https://www.politicalconcepts.org/roitman-crisis/

Tooze, Adam (2021), ‘Economy on Life Support’, in Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy, New York: Viking, chap. 7.

De Waal, Ales (2018) Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine. Polity Press. 1 chapter.

Non academic novel (not examination material, but enrichment of the course). Students to choose one of the two below:

• Kingsolver, Barbara (2022) Demon Copperhead. New York: Harper.
• Stuart, Douglas (2020) Shuggie Bain. New York: Grove Press.

Artiklar

Bankoff, Greg (2013) "The “English Lowlands” and the North Sea Basin System: A History of Shared Risk’, Environment and History, 19(1): 3-37.

Best, Jacqueline (2010), ‘The Limits of Financial Risk Management: Or What we Didn’t Learn from the Asian Crisis’, New Political Economy, 15(1): 29-49.

Bradshaw, Sarah, Brian Linneker, and Lisa Overton (2022). Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability. In Bankoff, G., and Hilhorst, D. (eds.). Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation (pp. 51–82). Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Milton: Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003219453-5

Davies, Sara E. et al. (2023), ‘Centering Social Reproduction during Crisis: Women’s Experiences of Food Insecurity in Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines during the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Review of International Political Economy, Published online: 13 July 2023.

Engel, Karin, Georg Frerks, Lucia Velotti, Jeroen Warner and Bart Weijs (2014) “Flood disaster subcultures in The Netherlands: the parishes of Borgharen and Itteren,” Natural Hazards, 73(2): 859-882.

Eriksen, Siri, Jeremy Lind (2009) “Adaptation as a Political Process: Adjusting to Drought and Conflict in Kenya’s Drylands,” Environmental Management 43: 817-835.

Fernando, Jude (2020) “The Virocene Epoch: the vulnerability nexus of viruses, capitalism and racism,” Journal of Political Ecology 27(1): 635-684. DOI: 10.2458/V27I1.23748

Fernando, Udan, and Dorothea Hilhorst. 2006. “Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: Tsunami response in Sri Lanka,” Development in Practice, 16 (3&4): 292–302.

Fordham, Maureen (1999) “The Intersection of Gender and Social Class in Disaster: Balancing Resilience and Vulnerability,” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 17(1), 15-36.

Gasper, Des and Irene van Staveren (2003) “Development as Freedom – And as What Else?” Feminist Economics, 9(2-3): 137-161.

Helleiner, Eric (2010), ‘A Bretton Woods Moment? The 2007-2008 Crisis and the Future of Global Finance’, International Affairs, 86(3): 619-636.

Hesselman, Marlies (2013). Establishing a Full 'Cycle of Protection' for Disaster Victims: Preparedness, Response and Recovery According to Regional and International Human Rights Supervisory Bodies. Tilburg Law Review, 18 (2), 106–132.

Hilhorst, Dorothea and Bram Jansen (2010) “Humanitarian space as arena: A perspective on the everyday politics of aid”, Development and Change 41(6): 1117-1139.

Hollenbach, Pia (2013) “Dynamics of multi-local gifts: practices of humanitarian giving in posttsunami Sri Lanka,” Development in Practice, 23(3): 319-331.

Kirk, Emily (2017) “Alternatives – dealing with the perfect storm: Cuban disaster management,” Studies in Political Economy 98(1): 93–103.

Korf, Benedikt, Shahul Hasbullah, Pia Hollenbach and Bart Klem (2010) “The Gift of Disaster: The Commodification of Good Intentions in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka”, Disasters, 34(S1): S60-S77.

Lee, Jiseon, Duminda Perera, Talia Glickman, Lina Taing (2020) “Water-related disasters and their health im- pacts: a global review,” Progress in Disaster Science 8, 100123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100123

Lewis, James & Ilan Kelman (2012). The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Versus Disaster Risk Creation (DRC). PLoS Currents, 4, https://doi.org/10.1371/4f8d4eaec6af8

Loewenberg, Sam (2014) “Breaking the cycle: drought and hunger in Kenya,” Special Report 383 at www.thelancet.com. DOI: 0.1016/S0140-6736(14)60492-X

Milanovic, Branko (2011) “A short history of global inequality: The past two centuries”, Explorations in Economic History, 48(4): 494-506.

Munck, Ronaldo (2013) “The Precariat: A view from the South”, Third World Quarterly, 34(5): 747- 762.

Orjuela, Camilla (2023). Remembering/forgetting hunger: towards an understanding of famine memorialization. Third World Quarterly, 45(2), 259–276. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2200928

Pelling, Mark (2001) “Natural Disasters?” In: Noel Castree & Bruce Braun (Eds.), Social nature: Theory, practice and politics, pp. 170–188. Oxford: Blackwell.

Raju, Emmanuel, Emily Boyd, and Friederike Otto (2022) “Stop blaming the climate for disasters,” Communications Earth & Environment. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00332-2.

Stirrat, Jock (2008) “Mercenaries, missionaries and misfits: Representations of development personnel”, Critique of Anthropology, 28(4): 406-425.

Van Koningsveld, M., J. Mulder, M. Stive, L. Van der Valk and A, Van der Weck (2008) “Living with Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change: A Case Study of the Netherlands”, Journal of Coastal Research, 242: 367-379.

Vigh, Henrik (2008). Crisis and Chronicity: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuous Conflict and Decline. Ethnos, 73(1), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840801927509

De Waal, Alex (2009) ‘Mission without end? Peacekeeping in the African political marketplace’, *International *Affairs, 85(1): 99-113.

Warner, Jeroen, Martijn van Staveren, Jan van Tatenhove (2018) “Cutting dikes, cutting ties? Reintroducing flood dynamics in coastal polders in Bangladesh and the Netherlands”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 32: 106-112.

Volume 12 (2022): Issue 3-4 (Sep 2022): Special Issue: Critical Explorations of Crisis: Politics, Precariousness, and Potentialities. Guest Edited by Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Vanja Berggren. https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gd/12/3-4/gd.12.issue-3-4.xml (students to select two articles of choice from this collection)

Rapporter 

Göteborg Stad (2023) Jämlikhetsrapporten 2023. Skillnader i livsvillkor och hälsa i Göteborg. Göteborg: Göteborg Stad.

Smith, Neil (2006) “There's no such thing as a natural disaster,” Understanding Katrina, Social Science Research Council (USA). items.ssrc.org/understanding-katrina/theres-no-such-thingas-a-natural-disaster.