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Author Stephan, Christiane.

Title Living with floods : Social practices and transformations of flood management in Chiapas, Mexico.

Publication Info. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages)
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Contents Intro; TABLE OF CONTENT; TABLE OF FIGURES; TABLE OF TABLES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 TOPIC AND RESEARCH QUESTION; 2.1 PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES OF INTEREST; 2.2 STATE OF THE ART -- FLOOD RELATED RESEARCH; 2.3 CHALLENGES IN DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN MEXICO; 2.4 RESEARCH QUESTION; 3 INTRODUCING THE CASE STUDY REGION -- SELECTED SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS IN A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW; 3.1 STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE USUMACINTA RIVER IN MAYAN TIMES; 3.2 ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN COLONIAL TIMES AND AFTER
3.3 POPULATION DYNAMICS, FIGHT FOR LAND AND MAJOR POLITICAL DYNAMICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY3.4 RECENT PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DYNAMICS OF RESISTANCE; 4 SOCIAL PRACTICES, RISK AND SPACE -- THEORETICAL BASIS; 4.1 PARADIGMATIC AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL BASIS; 4.2 SOCIAL PRACTICE THEORY; 4.3 THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF RISK; 4.4 THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF SPACE; 4.5 INTEGRATION OF PRACTICES, RISK AND SPACE INTO THE RISKSCAPES CONCEPT; 5 METHODOLOGY; 5.1 POSITIONALITY, ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND QUESTIONS OF OWNERSHIP; 5.2 GROUNDED THEORY AND LINK TO TWO "ALTERNATIVE EPISTEMOLOGIES."
5.3 A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH5.4 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHICAL METHODOLOGY; 5.5 DESIGN OF THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROCESS AND METHODS OF DATA GENERATION; 5.6 AUDIO-VISUAL METHODS; 5.7 INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL METHODS; 5.8 METHODS APPLIED IN ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION; 6 SOCIAL PRACTICES OF LIVING WITH FLOODS PERFORMED BY VILLAGE INHABITANTS; 6.1 LOCALLY IDENTIFIED TOPICS AND CONCEPTS; 6.2 IDENTIFICATION OF KEY SOCIAL PRACTICES; 6.3 FLOOD, FLOOD RISK OR LIVING WITH FLOODS; 6.4 LIVELIHOOD, THE "GOOD LIFE" AND DEVELOPMENT
6.5 CREATING AND PERFORMING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES6.6 RETELLING AND RE-PERFORMING HISTORY; 6.7 FIGHTING FOR LAND AND THE IMPORTANCE OF "LA TIERRA"; 6.8 INTERACTING WITH GOVERNMENT; 7 BODILY-MATERIAL NOTIONS IN FLOOD RELATED PRACTICES OF VILLAGE INHABITANTS; 7.1 MATERIAL REALITIES OF LIVING WITH FLOODS; 7.2 SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT; 8 SOCIAL PRACTICES OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT PERFORMED BY EXTERNAL ACTORS; 8.1 SOCIAL PRACTICES PERFORMED BY CIVIL PROTECTION ACTORS; 8.2 SOCIAL PRACTICES PERFORMED BY GOVERNMENT ACTORS; 8.3 SOCIAL PRACTICES OF OTHER ACTORS RELEVANT FOR FLOOD MANAGEMENT
8.4 SYNTHESIS OF EMPIRICAL RESULTS CONCERNING SOCIAL PRACTICES OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT9 RISKSCAPES -- SOCIAL PRACTICE PATTERNS OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH OF MEXICO; 9.1 INSIGHTS ON THE MAIN THEORETICAL CONCEPTS; 9.2 A RISKSCAPE OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH OF MEXICO -- CONFLICTING SOCIAL PRACTICES AND CONTESTED SPACES; 9.3 INTERRELATIONS OF SOCIAL PRACTICES IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE RISKSCAPE APPROACH; 10 CONCLUSION -- SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN A CONTEXT OF RISK AND DEVELOPMENT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; OTHER SOURCES AND SUPPORT; ANNEX
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Subject Floods -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
Floods -- Social aspects.
Mexico -- Chiapas.
Floods.
Risk management -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
Risk management.
Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Risk -- Sociological aspects.
Human ecology -- Mexico -- Chiapas.
Human ecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Stephan, Christiane. Living with floods : Social practices and transformations of flood management in Chiapas, Mexico. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, ©2019
ISBN 3515124810
9783515124812 (electronic book)