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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Scott McKinnon , Margaret CookPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9789811543814ISBN 10: 981154381 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 08 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsCh 1. “Best forgotten”: Black Saturday’s difficult stories.Ch 2. “A bit more respect for nature”: Migrant Voices in bushfire environments.Ch 3. “I mean they build a memorial for people who die in war and it was like a warzone”.Ch 4. “Shaken but not stirred”: the aftermath of disasters.Ch 5. Deluges, Crocodiles and Water Scarcity.Ch 6. Rise and Fall of a Disaster Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Targets.Ch 7. Decolonising settler hazardscapes of the Waipa: Māori and Pākehā remembering of flooding and fires in the Waikato 1900-1950.Ch 8. An unnatural disaster: When disaster histories broach a heated subject Conclusion: The Future of Disaster Histories.ReviewsAuthor InformationDr Scott McKinnon is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong. He is a historian and geographer with a research background in disasters research, geographies of memory, and histories and geographies of sexuality. Scott is the author of Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, memory and the history of a gay male community (2016). Dr Margaret Cook is a Lecturer in History at the University of the Sunshine Coast and Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe University and University of Queensland. A freelance historian for many years, her research interests include disasters, water, climate and the cotton industry. Margaret is the author of A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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