Overview
- Synthesizes the social, urban, and economic impacts of disaster
- Provides insights into the everyday life and the survival strategies of a population shaped by disaster over many decades
- Features excerpts from 85 in-depth interviews with members of informal settlements and housing projects
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
It shows how key-concepts in contemporary scientific analysis, such as “shock economy” and “economy of disaster,” can be aptly backdated. Above all, this study broadens the normal analyses of disasters by showing the stratification of institutional techniques and economic forces that, over the decades, intervened and (re-)shaped the site of a disaster and its social structure.
Reviews
“Disasters last a long time. The interminable reconstruction of Messina was precursory of the spatial and social configurations of inequality that still characterize the city. In 1908, Messina prefigured contemporary disaster relief. For its acute analysis, its compassionate ethnography, its theoretical skill in weaving space with social class and state with financial capitalism, Farinella and Saitta's book is essential reading.” (Magali Sarfatti Larson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Temple University, USA)
“Domenica Farinella and Pietro Saitta have written a powerful analysis of the 1908 Messina earthquake that reveals its long-lasting impact on the destinies of the city and its people. They show how the earthquake remade Messina, as the fitful rebuilding both ensured the development of an impoverished working class and a bourgeoisie devoted to a rentier economy. Astonishingly clear, acutely written – an important contribution.” (Michael Blim, Professor of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Pietro Saitta, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Messina, Italy. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Urbino (2004) and has worked in many national and international university and research institutions, including the Cuny-Graduate Center, Columbia University, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, and WHO.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Endless Reconstruction and Modern Disasters
Book Subtitle: The Management of Urban Space Through an Earthquake – Messina, 1908–2018
Authors: Domenica Farinella, Pietro Saitta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19361-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19360-7Published: 27 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19363-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19361-4Published: 13 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Natural Hazards, Urban History