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A paradise built in hell
the extraordinary communities and strange joys that arise in disasters
by Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Solnit
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A startling investigation ofwhat people do in disastersand why it mattersWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster—whether manmade or natural—people suddenlybecome altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makesthe newfound communities and purpose many findin the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? Andwhat does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet socialdesires and possibilities?In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning authorRebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, lookingat major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in SanFrancisco through the 1917 explosion that tore upHalifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake,9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Sheexamines how disaster throws people into a temporaryutopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities,as well as looking at the cost of the widespread mythsand rarer real cases of social deterioration during...
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Aug 31, 2010, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Books
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A paradise built in hell: the extraordinary communities and strange joys that arise in disasters
2009, Viking
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A paradise built in hell
the extraordinary communities and strange joys that arise in disasters
First published in 2009
Subjects
Disasters, Social aspects, Psychological aspects of Disasters, Social aspects of Disasters, Psychological aspects, Soziologie, Katastrofer, Katastrophe, Communities, Psychologie, Sociala aspekter, Psykologiska aspekter, Altruism, Nonfiction, Psychology, SociologyWork Description
A startling investigation ofwhat people do in disastersand why it mattersWhy is it that in the aftermath of a disaster—whether manmade or natural—people suddenlybecome altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makesthe newfound communities and purpose many findin the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? Andwhat does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet socialdesires and possibilities?In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning authorRebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, lookingat major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in SanFrancisco through the 1917 explosion that tore upHalifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake,9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Sheexamines how disaster throws people into a temporaryutopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities,as well as looking at the cost of the widespread mythsand rarer real cases of social deterioration during...
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