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John Preston

Grenfell Tower

Preparedness, Race and Disaster Capitalism

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The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history. This book argues that preparedness for disasters has always been designed in the interests of the State and Capital rather than citizens. This was exemplified by the 'stay put' strategy at Grenfell Tower which has historically been used to socially control racialised working class groups in a disaster. 'Stay put', where fire safety is compromised along with strategic ambiguity, probabilistically eliminates these groups. Grenfell Tower is a purposive part of 'Disaster Capitalism', an asocial racial and class eliminationism, where populations hav… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-3-319-96851-3
  • EAN: 9783319968513
  • Produktnummer: 28217841
  • Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 902 KB

Über den Autor


John Preston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and an ESRC Leadership Fellow for the Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research.

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