Sociala effekter av katastrofer

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we …

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, …

En kris kan bokstavligt talat vända upp och ner på såväl hela samhällen som på de drabbade personernas tillvaro. Krishantering i praktiken ger kunskap, stöd och konkreta verktyg …

"A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters" (The New York Times Book Review) from the author of the memoir Recollections of My …

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES 'A compelling hurricane of a book' ANN PATCHETT A major debut that follows a Jamaican …

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon …

För fyrtio år sedan skedde ett dramatiskt paradigmskifte i svensk politik och det inleddes med en Big Bang: Avregleringen av finans- och valutamarknaderna. Denna omvälvande …

Counterpointing Los Angeles's central role in America's fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909 - with its wanton denial of …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Radioactive sources such as nuclear power installations can pose a great threat to both humans and our environment. How do we measure, model and regulate such threats? …