Dancing with disaster : environmental histories, narratives, and ethics for perilous times
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1716
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- ISBN
- 9780813936901
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 225-page monograph is the outcome of six years’ wide-ranging interdisciplinary research across environmental literary studies, history and philosophy. It entailed familiarising myself with disaster studies research across the fields of geography, history and anthropology; investigating the history of the concept of ‘natural disaster’; developing case studies of particular historical disasters, including the interplay of socio-historical and geo-physical factors in their causation and the cultural frames through with they were interpreted; the development of a new ecophilosophically-informed ethical framework for disaster mitigation; and the recontextualization and reinterpretation of exemplary works of German and English literary fiction in this innovative frame.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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