2011/02/23 by Stewart Williams, Keith Jacobs · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Disaster Management and Resilience #Homelessness and Social Issues #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
paper · doi:10.1080/02673037.2011.557587
openalex publication_date 2011/02/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Increasingly complex and severe disasters continue to occur, and housing remains a major part of the infrastructure impacted but is also central to recovery and resilience. This special issue of Housing Studies brings together papers that consider how disasters and disaster management are conceived in relation to housing. This introduction sets the scene by drawing upon the work of Beck and Foucault to show how the governance of risk society is constituted through particular ways of knowing and not-knowing, the enactment of safety, insecurity and the methods associated with actuarialism.