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 * SECTION 1: INTRO TO D-STS **


 * Week 1, January 25-31 – What is a Disaster **

Frickel, S., & Fortun, K. (2013). Making a Case for Disaster-STS. //Fukushima Forum//. Available at https://fukushimaforum.wordpress.com/online-forum-2/online- forum/making-a-case-for-disaster-science-and-technology-studies/

Quarantelli, E.L. (ed). 1998. What is a Disaster? A Dozen Perspectives on the Question. London: Routledge. (Selected Chapters) Smith, Oliver. 1999 ““What is a Disaster?” Anthropological Perspectives on a Persistent Question.” In //The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspectives//, edited by A. Oliver-Smith and S. Hoffman. New York and London: Routledge, 18-34


 * Week 2, February 1-7 – Disaster or Crisis? What’s the difference? **

Roitman, J. (2014). Anti-Crisis. Durham and London: Duke University Press. []

Masco, J. (2009). Bad Weather: On Planetary Crisis. Social Studies of Science. Doi: 10.1177/0306312709341598

Estes, C. L. (1983). Social security: the social construction of a crisis. The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 61(3), 445–61. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6555592

Birkland, T. A. (1998). Focusing Events, Mobilization, and Agenda Setting. Journal of Public Policy, 18(01), 53–74.


 * Week 3, February 8-14 – From “Natural” Disasters to Society “in Crisis” **

Tobin, G., and Montz, B., 1997. //Natural Hazards//. New York: Guildford. (selected chapters) Rigg, Jonathan (2014) “The politics behind ‘natural disasters’, //Straits Times//, 10th November, A20. Fortun, Kim. 2014. From Latour to late Industrialism. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Volume 4, Issue 1, 309-329.

Guggenheim, Michael. 2014. “Introduction: disasters as politics – politics as disasters,” The Sociological Review. Volume 62, Issue S1, June 2014, Pages: 1–16.


 * Week 4, February 15-21 – Communicating Risks, Disasters, Cirses **

Tierney, K., Bevc, C., and Kuligowski, E., 2006. Metaphors matter: disaster myths, media frames, and their consequences in Hurricane Katrina. //ANNALS, AAPSS//, **604**, 57–81.

Scanlon, J., 2007. Research about the mass media and disaster: never (well hardly ever) the twain shall meet. In McEntire, D. A. (ed.), //Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management//. Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Marres, N. S. (2005). No issue, no public: Democratic deficits after the displacement of politics. [Thesis]. Retrieved from: [] (Selections)

** SECTION 2: CONCEPTS IN D-STS **

Smithson, Michael. 1990. “Ignorance and Disasters” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 8(3):207-235.
 * Week 5, February 22-28 – Resilience **

Alexander, D. E. “Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction: An Etymological Journey.” //Natural Hazards and Earth System Science// 13, no. 11 (November 5, 2013): 2707–2716.

Bigg, Jonathan and K Oven (2015) "Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia". //Global Environmental Change//, 32, no. May: 175-186. Wulff, K., Donato, D., & Lurie, N. (2015). What is Health Resilience and How Can We Build It? //Annual Review of Public Health 36//, 361-374.

Weichselgartner, J., & Kelman, I. (2014). Geographies of Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities of a Descriptive Concept. //Progress in Human Geography//, 1-19.

Comfort, Louise K. 2005. “Risk, security, and disaster management,” Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 8: 335-356.
 * Week 6, February 29 - March 6 – Risk & Uncertainty **

Beck, Ulrich. 2000. “Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes.” In //The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory//, edited by Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck, and Joost van Loon, 210-229. London: SAGE Publications.

Steinberg, Laura J., Hatice Sengul, and Ana Maria Cruz. 2008. “Natech Risk and Management: An Assessment of the State of the Art.” Natural Hazards 46:143-152. Beck, Ulrich. 1987. “The Anthropological Shock: Chernobyl And The Contours of The Risk Society.” //Berkeley Journal of Social Sociology// 32: 153-165. Clark, Nigel. 2014. “Geo-politics and the disaster of the Anthropocene,” The Sociological Review. Volume 62, Issue S1, June 2014, Pages: 19–37.
 * Week 7, March 7-13 – The Politics and Governance of Disasters **

Stephen Hilgartner, “Overflow and Containment in the Aftermath of Disaster,” Social Studies of Science 37:1 (February 2007): 153-158.

Tierney, K. J. (2012). Disaster Governance: Social, Political and Economic Dimensions. //Annual Review of Environment and Resources 37//, 341-363.

Bond, David. 2013. “Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill.” //Cultural Anthropology// 28: 694–715.

Jhala, Jayasinhji. 2004. “In a Time of Fear and Terror: Seeing, Assessing, Assisting, Understanding and Living the Reality of the Consequences of Disaster.” //Visual Anthropology Review//. 20(1): 59-69.

Waugh, W. L., Jr., 2007. Public administration, emergency management, and disaster policy. In McEntire, D. A. (ed.), //Disciplines, Disasters and Emergency Management//. Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Rajan, Ravi S. 2002. “Missing Expertise, Categorical Politics and Chronic Disasters: The Case of Bhopal.” In //Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster//, edited by Susanna Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith, 237-259. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
 * Week 8, March 14-20 – Experts and Publics **

Glik, Deborah C. 2007. “Risk communication for public health emergencies,” Annual Review of Public Health 28:33-54.

Wynne, Brian. 1996. “May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide.” In Risk, Environment, and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology, edited by S. Lash, B. Szerszynski, and B. Wynne. London: Sage, 27-83.

Kleinman and Kleinman. 1996. “The Appeal of Experience; The Dismay of Images: Cultural Appropriations of Suffering in Our Times.” //Daedalus//, Vol. 125 (1): 1-23.

Charles L. Briggs. “Theorizing Modernity Conspiratorially: Science, Scale, and the Political Economy of Public Discourse in Explanations of a Cholera Epidemic,” American Ethnologist May 2004, Vol. 31, No. 2: 164-187.

** SECTION 3: TOPICS IN D-STS **

Bankoff, Greg. 2003. “Vulnerability as a Measure of Change in Society.” //International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.// 21: 5–30. Petryna, Andrea. 2004. “Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Population.” //Osiris, Landscape of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments// 2 (19): 250-265. Dash, N., McCoy, B. G., and Herring, A., 2010. Class. In Phillips, B. D., Thomas, D. S. K., Fothergill, A., and Blinn-Pike, L. (eds.), //Social Vulnerability to Disaster//. Boca Raton: CRC, pp. 75–100. Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davis, I., and Wisner, B., 1994. //At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability, and Disasters//. London: Routledge.
 * Week 9, March 21-27 – Populations **

Vaughan, Diane. 1999. “The Dark Side of Organizations: Mistakes, Misconduct and Disasters.” //Annual Review of Sociology// 25: 271-305.
 * Week 10, March 28 – April, 3 – Disaster and Capitalism **

Klein, Naomi. 2005. “The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” []

Samimian-Darsh, Limor. 2013. “Governing Future Potential Biothreats: Towards an Anthropology of Uncertainty.” //Current Anthropology// 54 (1): 1-22. Anderson, B. 2010. “Preemption, precaution, preparedness: anticipatory action and future geographies,” //Progress in Human Geography//, 34: p777-798.
 * Week 11, April 4-10 – Managing Uncertain Futures **

Calhoun, Craig, 2004. “A World of Emergencies: Fear, Intervention, and the Limits of Cosmopolitan Order” //The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology.// 41(4): 373-395.

Smith, Neil. 2006. “There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster.” []
 * Week 12, April 11-17 – “Natural”, “SLOW”, “DISPERSE” **

Bankoff, Greg. 2010. “No Such Thing as Natural Disasters.” //Harvard International Review//, August 23. Accessed June 15, 2015.,[].

Pritchard, Sara. 2012. "An Envirotechnical Disaster: Nature, Technology, and Politics at Fukushima." //Environmental History//. 17(2): 219-243.

Nixon, Rob. “Introduction: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.” 2011.

** Concluding Session ** ** Week 13, April 18-24 **