Thesis
Humble geopolitics: rethinking natural hazards in South Iceland
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This thesis is concerned with the ways that communities in South Iceland are negatively affected by their geologically active environment. I argue that contemporary theorisations of hazards in human geography retain a militaristic preoccupation with catastrophe, antagonism and annihilation that actively impedes a fuller attention to the ways that communities live with hazards. In this thesis, I develop a new set of theoretical concepts which together map out the dimensions of what I term a...
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+ Lorimer, J
Department:
Univrsity of Oxford
Role:
Supervisor
+ Greenhough, B
Department:
University of Oxford
Role:
Supervisor
+ Kama, K
Department:
University of Oxford
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2020-01-03
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- Copyright holder:
- Nayeri, C
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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