Cosy Science presents: What catastrophes tell us about society?

The Cittie of Yorke, 22 High Holborn, London
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Cittie Of Yorke
High Holborn, WC1V 6BS
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Chancery Lane 0.04 miles

Disasters disrupt human societies and the environment. Different countries choose to prepare for various calamities in very diverse ways ranging from community-based and professional institutions to material infrastructures. The framing of state-led disaster preparedness thus tells us a lot about the relationship between the state and the citizen. In my talk, I will show this diversity of citizen-state relationships using the examples of India, Switzerland and the UK, which we have been studying in our ERC-funded research project ‘Organizing Disaster: Civil Protection and the Population’. (More on organizingdisaster.net).
FREE nibbles and drinks are provided by the Chech Center

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