Overflow and Containment in the Aftermath of Disaster.  

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Hilgartner, Stephen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 37 no. 1 (Feb. 2007), page 153.
Topik: accidents; Hurricane Katrina; politics; public inquiries; risk; risk society; sociology
Fulltext: 153.pdf (90.68KB)

Isi artikel

In reflecting on Hurricane Katrina, so soon after it struck the Gulf Coast, I want to consider what one might expect from the public inquiries and official investigations of the disaster. Prediction, whether of meteorological or social phenomena, is a risky business, but by now the field of science and technology studies (STS) has produced a substantial literature on the investigations and official inquiries that follow in the wake of notable disasters, accidents, technological failures, and other breakdowns of sociotechnical order. This literature is diffuse and the interests and theoretical perspectives of various authors differ, but the relevant work includes studies of knowledge-making in the aftermath of such failures as the Windscale nuclear accident, the Bhopal disaster, the Challenger explosion, the bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) episode, and the debacle of the Florida vote in the 2000 US Presidential election.1 To summarize (very briefly and admittedly inadequately) some major themes of this rich literature, I will list seven points. In the final section, I relate them to the Katrina case, and advance several tentative predictions.

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