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Rendering the untimely event of disaster ever present
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Williams, S, Rendering the untimely event of disaster ever present, Landscape Review, 14, (2) pp. 86-96. ISSN 1173-3853 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
So-called ‘natural’ disasters are an integral part of the Australian landscape, with the nation being celebrated as a land of fire and flooding rains. Yet extreme events do not often impact directly on most Australians. A disaster, by definition, comprises relatively exceptional phenomena. It is often experienced as a mediated product and representation of something that has already happened and is now a fading memory or a threat looming closer, perhaps, but always still to come. The disaster is no longer or not yet present in the landscape and is thus located elsewhere, relegated to the past or the future.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | time, disaster, bushfire, temporal landscape, materiality, non-representational theory, duration, presence |
| Research Division: | Human Society |
| Research Group: | Human geography |
| Research Field: | Social geography |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Adaptation to climate change |
| Objective Field: | Social impacts of climate change and variability |
| UTAS Author: | Williams, S (Dr Stewart Williams) |
| ID Code: | 87234 |
| Year Published: | 2013 |
| Deposited By: | Geography and Environmental Studies |
| Deposited On: | 2013-11-11 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-17 |
| Downloads: | 255 View Download Statistics |
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