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Disasters and Neoliberalism

Different Expressions of Social Vulnerability

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Editors:
  1. Gabriela Vera-Cortés

    1. Departamento de Sociedad y Cultura, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Villahermosa, Mexico

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  2. Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano

    1. Departamento de Cambio Sociocultural, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico

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  • Identifies how social vulnerability to disasters is expressed and/or developed based on neoliberal development.
  • Characterizes the impact neoliberal development has on the disaster response from the government actions in disasters response.
  • Identifies how the globalizing proposals in the amendment of constitutional laws relate to disaster response.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Disasters and Neoliberalism

    • Gabriela Vera-Cortés, Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano
    Pages 1-16

  3. Social Vulnerability to Disasters in Urban Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Disasters as a Social Relapse in Neoliberal Capitalism. Two Cases Analyzed in Developed Countries

      • Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano
      Pages 19-46

    3. Flood Management Through Financial Cost Transfer Schemes in Mexico City

      • Jorge Damián Morán-Escamilla
      Pages 47-67

    4. Social Vulnerability: Learnings from the September 19, 2017, Earthquake in Mexico City

      • Patricia Eugenia Olivera
      Pages 69-96

    5. “On the Banks of the Rio Bravo…”: Social Construction and Perception of Flood Risk in Irregular Settlements

      • Xavier Oliveras-González, Teresa Elizabeth Cueva-Luna, Rosa Isabel Medina-Parra
      Pages 97-118

    6. Temporary Shelters and Health Services for Older Adults in Floods in the Metropolis of Monterrey

      • Rosalía Chávez-Alvarado
      Pages 119-142

  4. Social Vulnerability to Disasters in Rural Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Spatial Reconfiguration and Relocations After Disasters in Rural Contexts: The Case of Tacotalpa, Tabasco

      • Gabriela Vera-Cortés
      Pages 145-184

    3. Human Relocations in Guerrero After the September 2013 Disaster Emergency: A Non-preventive Neoliberal Response

      • Marisol Barrios-Yllan, Beatriz Adriana Méndez-Torres
      Pages 185-212

    4. Vulnerability, Management of Volcanic Risk and Neoliberalism in Colima

      • Hugo Ignacio Rodríguez-García
      Pages 213-242

    5. It is Not the Rivers Fault: A Reflection About the Construction of Disasters in Brazil and Mexico

      • Gláucia Maria Quintino-Baraúna
      Pages 243-258

    6. Tabasco: Between Hydraulic Plans and Floods. Disasters and Human Rights

      • Ma. Magdalena Hernández
      Pages 259-273

    7. Water and Hills in the Indigenous Worldview and the Fight for the Defense of Natural Resources in the Sierra Norte de Puebla

      • Jair Díaz-Hurtado
      Pages 275-288

    8. Social Capital and Disasters. Facing Natural Hazards in the Nahua Sierra-Costa in Michoacan, Mexico

      • Berenice Solís-Castillo, Janik Granados-Herrera
      Pages 289-310

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 311-313
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About this book

This book shows how the adoption of the neoliberal development model has increased the social vulnerability to disasters, with a special focus on Mexico, a country which once was the role model of the neoliberal turn in Latin America. It brings together 12 case studies of disasters such as floods, earthquakes and volcanic emergencies, in both urban and rural areas, to show how neoliberal development projects and changes in legislation affected disaster prevention and management in different parts of the country. The case studies from Mexico are complemented by two comparative studies which analyze the impacts of neoliberalism in disaster prevention and management in Mexico, Brazil, United States and Italy.   


Disasters and Neoliberalism: Different Expressions of Social Vulnerability presents a unique contribution to the interdisciplinary field of disaster research by presenting qualitative studies of disaster vulnerability from the perspective of scholars from the Global South, bringing a fresh and critical approach to English speaking social sciences qualitative researchers working on disaster risks in a number of fields, such as geography, anthropology, sociology, political science and environmental studies.     



Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Sociedad y Cultura, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Villahermosa, Mexico

    Gabriela Vera-Cortés

  • Departamento de Cambio Sociocultural, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Mexico City, Mexico

    Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano

About the editors

Gabriela Vera-Cortés is a teacher and researcher at the Department of Society and Culture, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (Ecosur), Villahermosa, Mexico. She holds a a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a master’s degree and a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Mexico. She has worked as a teacher at the College of Geography of the UNAM and as a researcher at the Center of Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (Ciesas-Golfo). She is the author of more than 35 titles amongst books, chapters of books, and articles. Her research projects are focused on Anthropology of risk and social vulnerability to disasters. She is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System L-I.


Jesús Manuel Macias-Medrano holds a  PhD in Geography and is a Full Time Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studiesin Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. He is member of the Mexican National Researchers System L-II.  He has authored more than 170 works (books, articles) related to disaster and risk issues, most on Mexico. He is one of the founders of the Latin American Network for Social Studies and Disaster Prevention (La Red), and is former chair of the Advisory Committee on Social Sciences of the National Civil Protection System in Mexico. He is a member of the International Research Committee on Disasters of the International Sociological Association. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Disasters and Neoliberalism

  • Book Subtitle: Different Expressions of Social Vulnerability

  • Editors: Gabriela Vera-Cortés, Jesús Manuel Macías-Medrano

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54902-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54901-5Published: 25 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54904-6Published: 27 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54902-2Published: 24 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Human Geography, Social Anthropology, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general

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