Reaction Paper: Excluded Perspectives in the Social Construction of Disaster

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review and respond to the preceding five articles in the special issue [Ed.: Gilbert, Dombrowsky, Kreps, Porfiriev, and Horlick-Jones in Vol. 13, No. 3 (November 1995)]. My principal charge is to look at the authors' approaches to answering the question of What is a disaster? and respond to their considerations. In doing this, I have outlined a variety of what I believe to be excluded perspectives in these formulations of what constitutes disasters. Language: en