'A jungle that is continually encroaching': The time of disaster management
| Autor: | Cameron Hu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Emergency management
business.industry Postponement 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development World War II 0507 social and economic geography Temporality Environmental ethics Technocracy Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 0506 political science Political science 050602 political science & public administration Jungle business 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 36:96-113 |
| ISSN: | 1472-3433 0263-7758 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0263775817729377 |
| Popis: | This essay examines the temporal logics of contemporary disaster management. I discuss episodes from the expansion of the global disaster management complex—in the United States after WWII, and in Indonesia after the New Order—to characterize the form of futurity established through the technocratic administration of systematically-envisioned catastrophe. Disaster management projects a shallow future whose indeterminacy does not stimulate aspiration toward transcendence of the given, but rather motivates an endless procedural loop of anticipation and pre-emption in order to delay the destruction of the present order. Disaster management thus refashions “action” as the postponement of the future, and in doing so explicates a basic but neglected temporality of liberalism—that of vigilance toward continually-renewed danger. |
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