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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478030585
ISBN-139781478030584
eBay Product ID (ePID)26064292056
Product Key Features
Number of Pages328 Pages
Publication NameEvacuation : the Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectEarth Sciences / Geography, Sociology / General, Sociology / Social Theory, Sociology / Urban
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Science
AuthorPeter Adey
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-053862
Dewey Edition23
Reviews Evacuation is a brilliant exposition of evacuation as event, lurking background possibility, condition, technical object, claim, circulation, and much more. It shows how evacuation reproduces and disrupts existing orders and brings new ones about as it folds with providential, catastrophic, and other relations with life. The scope of what Peter Adey achieves is quite remarkable--he makes present an event, claim, and condition that we might know, in this case evacuation, and demonstrates its power to make, unmake, and remake the world. A stunning work., Evacuation is a brilliant exposition of evacuation as event, lurking background possibility, condition, technical object, claim, circulation, and much more. It shows how evacuation reproduces and disrupts existing orders and brings about new ones as it folds providential, catastrophic, and other relations with life. The scope of what Peter Adey achieves is quite remarkable--he makes present an event, claim, and condition that we might know, in this case evacuation, and demonstrates its power to make, unmake, and remake the world. A stunning work., Broad in scope and provocative in tone, Adey's text is a worthy addition to increasingly significant conversations surrounding evacuation and its impacts. With little pretense, Adey dives directly into emergency evacuations of buildings and vehicles before discussing more extreme forms of evacuation in the context of WW II and the postwar period. . . . Adey cleverly presents emergency and evacuation politics as both critique and possibility, a worthwhile lesson on power relations and everyday governance., Peter Adey's intellectual curiosity and creativity has brought us something 'outside the box' on an important subject. The value and profundity of Evacuation is without question. Imaginative in scope and method, it will be a significant contribution to a wide variety of disciplines., Evacuation is a brilliant exposition of evacuation as event, lurking background possibility, condition, technical object, claim, circulation, and much more. It shows how evacuation reproduces and disrupts existing orders and brings new ones about as it folds with providential, catastrophic, and other relation with life. The scope of what Peter Adey achieves is quite remarkable--he makes present an event, claim, and condition that we might know, in this case evacuation, and demonstrates its power to make, unmake, and remake the world. A stunning work., The book is excellently written, accessible, and highly recommended for students and scholars in the fields of technology, mobility, infrastructure, and logistics., Peter Adey's intellectual curiosity and creativity have brought us something 'outside the box' on an important subject. The value and profundity of Evacuation are without question. Imaginative in scope and method, it will be a significant contribution to a wide variety of disciplines.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal363.3481
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Footsteps: Diagramming High-Rise Evacuation 31 2. Mobile Medical-Military Machines 60 3. Evacuation and Euphemism: Memory, Lexicality, and Aphasia--From the Holocaust to Japanese American "Internment" 85 4. "The City is to Be Evacuated": Roads, Race, and Automobility during the Early Cold War 115 5. Companion Evacuations at the Boundaries of Life 142 6. A Disengagement: Evacuation, Trauma, Colonial Vertigo, and National Reproduction 164 7. Seeing Evacuation Logistically 183 8. Burn 206 Conclusion. The End 232 Notes 255 References 265 Index
SynopsisPeter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of evacuating people and animals from harm during emergencies, showing how it reveals, reinforces, and relies on structures of power., In Evacuation , Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers from the battlefield during World War I and escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11 to the human and animal evacuations in response to the 2009 Australian bushfires and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Adey demonstrates that evacuation is not an equal process. Some people may choose not to move while others are forced; some may even be brought into harm through evacuation. Often the poorest, racialized, and most marginalized communities hold the least power in such moments. At the same time, these communities can generate compassionate, creative, and democratic forms of care that offer alternative responses to crises. Ultimately, Adey contends, understanding the practice of evacuation illuminates its importance to power relations and everyday governance.
LC Classification NumberHV551.2.A326 2024
