![]() ![]() ![]() This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories. A Paradise Built in Hell The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Omschrijving Specificaties Alleen bij Standaard Boekhandel Nieuwe boeken. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Not only is destructive mass panic unusual verging on nonexistent, spontaneous cooperation and acts of startling courage and. Solnits goal is to convince the reader that nearly everything were shown in movies and popular culture about human behavior during disasters is wrong. Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? A Paradise Built in Hell is a book with an agenda. The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster ![]()
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