EAN: 9783030152888

WAITING FOR THE BIG ONE - CHARLOTTE MAZEL-CABAS...

This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted
earthquake) is understood  defined  and mitigated by experts  scientists  and residents in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp 
the book explores the earthquake's mode of existence  guiding the reader through different
epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews  the book
provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts  scientists  and
concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living
environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the
characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an
integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices.

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