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published by palgrave macmillan 2008 ISBN: 978-0-230-50697-8

"Post disaster, people often come to feel estranged from the rest of society and lose confidence in the structures of government…voices like those deserve to be listened to carefully." Kai Erikson

 

"Animal Disease and Human Trauma: Emotional Geographies of Disaster" sheds new light on the devastating impact of Foot and Mouth Disease and explores the human experience of disasters, by examining how daily lives intersect with dramatic events. It focuses on the example of the Cumbrian Foot and Mouth epidemic in 2001 and places it in an international context by looking at the ways in which communities survive and recover from a range of different disasters.

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Animal Disease and Human Trauma: Emotional Geographies of Disaster sheds new light on the devastating impact of Foot and Mouth Disease and explores the human experience of disasters, by examining how daily lives intersect with dramatic events. It focuses on the example of the Cumbrian Foot and Mouth epidemic in 2001 and places it in an international context by looking at the ways in which communities survive and recover from a range of different disasters.

In the aftermath of 2001 a research team at Lancaster University, led by Dr Maggie Mort, examined the long-term consequences of the Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic. The study drew on interviews and weekly diaries from people in North Cumbria who were involved or caught up in the disaster. These interviews and diaries (more than 3,000 narrative entries) were collected over an 18-month period and contain unique insights into living through a disaster and recovering from its impact.

Disasters tend to be approached by planners and policymakers as if they have a clear beginning, middle and end, but the experience of being in a disaster is often very different. For many, part of what makes particular events so harrowing is a sense that the past, the present and the future are all implicated or affected by what has happened. This book offers ways of understanding disasters as 'non-linear' events, whilst also providing practical insights for policymakers and practitioners in disaster recovery.

  “This book makes a valuable contribution to the emerging body of work dedicated to animal disease and biosecurity and to studies of disaster more generally.

...a powerful account of the FMD epidemic, told through the voices of those ‘inside’ the disaster ...of interest to scholars in various disciplines interested in disaster studies, risk management, environmental knowledge controversies, animal disease and biosecurity.

It is also a book that needs to be read by policy makers and disaster managers developing and implementing risk management plans, as it provides a powerful reason why localised knowledge must be more adequately considered and incorporated.”

Damian Maye, Emotion, Space and Society

The book's authors are:

IAN CONVERY, MAGGIE MORT, JOSEPHINE BAXTER, CATHY BAILEY.

Animal Disease and Human Trauma - Emotional Geographies of Disaster

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