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What we call a “natural hazard” is never simply natural. This chapter argues that hazard is a social and political construction — one that serves as a crystallisation of the power relations embedded in global capitalism. Through the lens of risk management, scientific knowledge is mobilised not merely to understand nature, but to tame, order, and ultimately control it — and, by extension, the people who live within it. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power-knowledge and Massey’s theorisation of space, the chapter traces how the transformation of uncertainty into calculable risk produces an illusion of control, one that conceals as much as it reveals. Hazards, in this reading, are above all “experiences of the mind”: they are not discovered, but invented — shaped by the temporal and spatial scales through which humans perceive and make sense of the world around them.
Link to the Laboratory of Prof. Gomez:
新分担執筆・科学と災害の哲学 The latest book
chapter by C. Gomez on the theory of disasters and sciences has been
published by Taylor and Francis – 地形学と自然災害学
