Publications

Tell us about your recent publications in critical disaster studies, and we’ll list them here. For a longer list of books published about disaster since Spring 2019, see here.

Books

book cover: Critical Disaster Studies — Jacob A.C. Remes and Andy Horowitz, editors. 2020. Critical Disaster Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

cover: The Blossom Which We Are — Nir Evron. 2020. The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds. Albany: SUNY Press.

book cover: Underwater — Rebecca Elliott. 2020. Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press.

book cover: Katrina: A History — Andy Horowitz. 2020. Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

book cover: Inventing Disaster — Cynthia A. Kierner. 1919 Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.

book cover: International Order and the Politics of Disaster — Scott D. Watson. 2019. International Order and the Politics of Disaster. London: Routledge.

book cover: Disaster Citizenship — Jacob A.C. Remes. 2016. Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity and Power in the Progressive Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Book chapters

Holmberg, Karen. 2020. “Landing on the terrestrial volcano.” In Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 56-57. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Holmberg, Karen. 2020. “Risky business and the future of the past: Nuclear power in the Ring of Fire.” In Going Forward By Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse, edited by Felix Riede and Payson Sheets. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.