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Journal article
Dancing in Fear: Insights Into Disaster Management From Understanding Ancient Practice
South Australian Geographical Journal, Vol.Special Issue - Geography Futures Past(2), pp.1-12
2025
Abstract
Throughout human history in every part of the habitable world, people periodically experienced the effects of disasters, both slow-onset and rapid-onset, and gradually evolved ways of managing these. In today’s globalized world, disaster risk management strategies are largely generic, products of an unprecedentedly interconnected and homogenous world in which the perception of disaster risk is perhaps greater than ever before. This study argues that pre-modern societies were no less risk-aware and concerned with risk minimization than modern societies. It proposes that we today can localize, even improve, our risk management strategies through a sympathetic reading of ancient practice.
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- Title
- Dancing in Fear: Insights Into Disaster Management From Understanding Ancient Practice
- Authors
- Patrick Nunn - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- South Australian Geographical Journal, Vol.Special Issue - Geography Futures Past(2), pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Royal Geographical Society of South Australia
- Date published
- 2025
- ISSN
- 2208-7222; 1030-0481
- Copyright note
- This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CCBY-NC-ND-4.0). View this license’s legal deed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 and legal code at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode for more information.
- Organisation Unit
- Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991155035602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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