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Disaster politics: tipping points for change in the adaptation of sociopolitical regimes

¹ Department of Geography, King's College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
² Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, 409 S Geneva St 2, Ithaca, NY, 14850-5517, USA

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mark.pelling{at}kcl.ac.uk.

	Abstract

Calls from the climate change community and a more widespread concern for human security have reawakened the interest of geographers and others in disaster politics. A legacy of geographical research on the political causes and consequences of disaster is reviewed and built on to formulate a framework for the analysis of post-disaster political space. This is constructed around the notion of a contested social contract. The Marmara earthquake, Turkey, is used to illustrate the framework and provide empirical detail on the multiple scales and time phasing of post-disaster political change. Priorities for a future research agenda in disaster politics are proposed

First published on May 12, 2009
Progress in Human Geography 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132509105004


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