Learning and Calamities

I Learning and Interpretative Patterns in Disasters and Catastrophes 1. Catastrophes as a Collapse of Symbolic Order. Scientific Theoretical Concepts and Social Practices of Learning from Calamities 2. Beyond Experiential Learning in Disaster and Development Communication II Learning from History? 3. "The Monster Swallows You": Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500-2000 4. A Disaster in Slow Motion. The Case of Smoke Pollution in Industrial Britain 5. Learning about Disasters from Animals 6. Historia Magistra Vitae, or So They Say: Why Societies do not Necessarily Learn from Past Disasters III Institutional Patterns of Interpretation and Practices of Learning 7. Normalization and Its Discontents. Organizational Learning from Disaster 8. High Reliability Organizations and Networks 9. Analysis of Catastrophic Natural Hazard Events and their Contribution to Changes in Natural Hazard Management in Switzerland 10. Michel Foucault and Contamination Disaster: Biopolitical Patterns of Interpretation of Institutional Actors after Technical Accidents with Contaminations IV Societal Patterns of Interpretation and Practices of Learning 11. When Push Comes to Shove: The Framing of Need in Disaster Relief Efforts 12. Science Versus Metaphysics: The Importance of Everyday Life Experience for the Interpretation of Disaster 13. Kearifan Lokal and the 2010 Mt. Merapi Eruption: Merging Communitiy-based Disaster Communication Practices with Scientific Knowledge toward Minimizing Disaster Risk V Conclusion 14. Learning from Calamities: What Did We Learn?