Contents: Ute Luig: Negotiating Disasters: An Overview – Michael
Bollig: Social-Ecological Change and the Changing Structure of
Risk, Risk Management and Resilience in a Pastoral Community in
Northwestern Namibia – Ingo Haltermann: The Perception of Natural
Hazards in the Context of Human (In-)security – Elísio
Macamo/Dieter Neubert: «Flood Disasters». A Sociological Analysis
of Local Perception and Management of Extreme Events Based on
Examples from Mozambique, Germany, and the USA – Arne Harms:
Squatters on a Shrinking Coast: Environmental Hazards, Memory and
Social Resilience in the Ganges Delta – Manfred Zaumseil/Johana
Prawitasari-Hadiyono: Researching Coping Mechanisms in Response to
Natural Disasters: The Earthquake in Java, Indonesia (2006) –
Martin Sökefeld: The Attabad Landslide and the Politics of Disaster
in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan – Pascale Schild: Representations and
Practices of «Home» in the Context of the 2005 Earthquake and
Reconstruction Process in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir – Edward
Simpson: The Anthropology of a «Disaster Boom» Economy in Western
India – Axel Schäfer: Lightning, Thunderstorms, Hail: Conception,
Religious Interpretations and Social Practice among the Quechua
People of the South Peruvian Andes – Dorothea E. Schulz: In the
Shadow of an Unreconciled Nature: Muslim Practices of Mourning
and/as Social Reproduction in Uganda – Brigitte Vettori:
Negotiating Culture: Indigenous Communities on the Nicobar and
Andaman Islands as Focal Points in the Post-tsunami Media Coverage
2004/05.
Ute Luig was until 2010 Professor of Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. She did long-term fieldwork in different African countries and Cambodia. Her main interests besides the conceptualization of nature and cultural approaches to disaster research are memory and spirit possession cults. She studied disasters from different perspectives, e.g. in form of the HIV/AIDS crisis, war and memory in Cambodia and cultural interpretations of so-called «natural disasters».
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