Today, December 28, is the anniversary of the Tay Bridge Disaster. The tragedy is now remembered in connection with the disaster of the poem it inspired. William McGonagall (whose family name, at least, is familar to readers of the Harry Potter books, because his grave is in the cemetery near the coffee shop where the first […]
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Disaster, constructed social-perspectively
There is more, or maybe less, to disaster than you may think. That may, or may not, be the theme of this essay: “Excluded perspectives in the social construction of disaster,” Kenneth Hewitt [pictured here], in What Is Disaster, E.L. Quarantelli (editor),Routledge, 1998, chapter 6, pp. 75-91.