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100			_aBandopadhyay, Saptarishi
245			_aAll is well : catastrophe and the making of the normal state
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2022 _aNew York :
300			_axiv, 306 p. ; _c25 cm
365			_b74.00 _cUSD _d78.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAll Is Well attempts to answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is the relationship between modern states and disasters? Disasters are commonly understood as exceptional occurrences that ruin societies and inspire ad hoc rituals of legal, administrative, and scientific control called 'disaster management.' States and the international institutions perform disaster management to protect society. The book challenges this traditional narrative. It interprets 'disaster management' as a historical struggle to conservate the existence and experience of catastrophes and produce idealized authorities capable of protecting society from uncertainty. It examines the emergence of this struggle in the eighteenth century and reveals how rulers and experts struggling to master God, Nature, and each other, inaugurated modern meanings of risk, normalcy, power, and responsibility. By recovering this history of disaster management, the book reveals underlying legal structures and political-economies that smuggle the unspoken costs of modernity inside the rationalized representation of past catastrophes and future risks. Catastrophes, put bluntly, are not occurrences. They are inventions. Even in their most destructive forms, catastrophes are the stigmata through which the modern state renews itself. The book develops this argument by examining the Marseille plague (1720), the Lisbon earthquake (1755), and the Bengal famine (1770), and showing how eighteenth-century beliefs reverberate in structure and policies of 'global' disaster management today. It concludes that Climate Change and the national and international authorities designed to fight it, are products of three centuries of disaster management, and civilizational survival depends on reckoning with this past.
650			_aEmergency management
650			_aDisasters
650			_aPolitical aspects
650			_aSocial aspects
650			_aCase studies
650			_aAnti-corruption
650			_aBengal
650			_a Land-tenure system
650			_aClimate change
650			_aCorruption
650			_a Disaster risk
650			_aEarthquake
650			_aEast India Company
650			_aRationality
650			_aFree trade
650			_aInternational law
650			_aLisbon
650			_aMughal Empire
650			_aNeoliberalism
650			_aRisk management
650			_aState-like authorities
650			_a Third world
650			_a Vulnerability approach
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