E-raamat: Evacuation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency

"Evacuation examines the politics of emergency evacuations, arguing that, despite the undemocratic means and the violence of displacement that characterizes many evacuations, these events can also showcase human agency, collectivity, and compassion. Peter Adey poses evacuation as an object of governance, examining the ways that local authorities, state governments, and federal governments interact with and control people in situations deemed as emergencies. Examining a range of evacuation case studies across the Global North such as the evacuation of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre on 9/11, evacuations of wounded soldiers during World War I, the forced evacuations of Jewish peoples and Japanese Americans during the second World War, and human and animal evacuations in response to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the recent Australian bushfires, Adey shows how evacuations cannot be separated from the legacies of racial colonialism that continue to fuel contemporary political and ecological disasters"--

Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of evacuating people and animals from harm during emergencies, showing how it reveals, reinforces, and relies on structures of power.

In Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers from the battlefield during World War I and escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11 to the human and animal evacuations in response to the 2009 Australian bushfires and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Adey demonstrates that evacuation is not an equal process. Some people may choose not to move while others are forced; some may even be brought into harm through evacuation. Often the poorest, racialized, and most marginalized communities hold the least power in such moments. At the same time, these communities can generate compassionate, creative, and democratic forms of care that offer alternative responses to crises. Ultimately, Adey contends, understanding the practice of evacuation illuminates its importance to power relations and everyday governance.