Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania Lauer Matthew
In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territo… Celý popis ↓
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Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania Lauer Matthew
In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster's outcomes.Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process.
In an increasingly To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies.
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