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oapen-20.500.12657-632092024-03-28T08:18:54Z Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times van Asperen, Hanneke Jensen, Lotte Disasters, culture, representation, identity, history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNR Natural disasters Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ever greater impacts on our lives. This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages. These creations reflect and shape how people learn and think about disasters that occur nearby or far away, both in time and space. The parallels between past and present underline how this book contributes to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters. 2023-06-05T13:01:50Z 2023-06-05T13:01:50Z 2023 book 9789463725798 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63209 eng Disaster Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048557707.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463725798 10.5117/9789463725798 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789463725798 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 1 338 Amsterdam Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ever greater impacts on our lives.
This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages. These creations reflect and shape how people learn and think about disasters that occur nearby or far away, both in time and space. The parallels between past and present underline how this book contributes to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters.
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