Historisches Seminar

Thema

Katastrophen in der Geschichte der Philippinen, Theorie und Konzepte zur Erforschung von Katastrophen in historischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive

Curriculum vitae

Geboren 1954, 1990 Promotion an der Murdoch Universität, Westaustralien, seit 2002 Associate-Professor für Südostasienstudien an der Universität Auckland, 2002-2003 Gastwissenschaftler für "Disaster Studies" an der Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (Niederlande), 2003-2004 Gastwissenschaftler am Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, zur Zeit Visiting Professor of Disaster Management an der Universität Coventry (England).

Thematische Publikationen (Auswahl)

Monographie

Cultures of Disaster. Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines, London 2003.

Sammelband

(mit Georg Frerks und Thea Hilhorst): Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People, London 2004.

Aufsätze

Societies in Conflict: Algae and Humanity in the Philippines, in: Environment and History, 5 (1999), 97-123.

A History of Poverty: the Politics of Natural Disasters in the Philippines, 1985-1995, in: The Pacific Review 12 (1999), 381-420. Rendering the World Unsafe: "Vulnerability" as Western Discourse, in: Disasters 25 (2001), S. 19-35.

Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime Southeast Asia, in: McNeil, John (Hg.): Environmental History in the Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900, Aldershot / Hampshire 2001, S. 121-141.

Environment, Resources and Hazards, in Heenan, Patrick u. Monique Lamontage (Hgg.): The Southeast Asian Handbook, London/ Chicago 2001, S. 179-192.

Discoursing Disasters: Paradigms of Risk and Coping, in: Trialog. A Journal for Planning and Building in the Third World 73 (2002), S. 3-7.

Vulnerability as a Measure of Change in Society, in: International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 21 (2003), S. 5-30.

"Regions of Risk": Western Discourses on Terrorism and the Significance of Islam, in: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 26 (2003), S. 411-426.

Constructing Vulnerability: The Historical, Natural and Social Generation of Flooding in Metro Manila, in: Disasters 27 (2003), S. 224-238.

In the Eye of the Storm: The Social Construction of the Forces of Nature and the Climatic and Seismic Construction of God in the Philippines, in: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 35 (2004), S. 91-111.

Chapter 2: The Historical Geography of Disaster: "Vulnerability" and "Local Knowledge" in Western Discourse: in: Bankoff et al. (Hgg.) 2004, S. 25-36.

Time is of the Essence: Disasters, Vulnerability and History, in: International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 22 (2004), S. 23-42.

Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines, 1600-2000, in: Christian Pfister und Christoph Mauch (Hgg.), Natural Hazards: Responses and Strategies in Global Perspective, erscheint 2007.