Disaster Politics: How Crises Reveal the True Nature of Power

Key Insights

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• The Sacrifice Calculus: How societies decide who to save and who to abandon
• Elite Strategies: How ruling groups maintain power through catastrophe
• Urban Vulnerability: Why some cities burn repeatedly while others don’t
• The Politics of Hunger: Famines as political events, not just agricultural failures
• Disaster as Catalyst: When catastrophe forces political transformation
• Collective Amnesia: Why disaster lessons fade faster than disaster memories

References

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3. Pelling, M. (2003). The vulnerability of cities: Natural disasters and social resilience. Earthscan Publications.
4. Tierney, K. (2007). *Disaster politics: Tipping points