To Rebuild or Not to Rebuild? Disorientation and Re-grounding in Post-quake on Mount Etna

This book focuses on the construction of ecological risks and disasters in different societal contexts: China, Japan, Europe (France and Italy), Polynesia. New risks create situations of high uncertainty and new inequalities. Coping with new environmental risks or disasters is organized around the maintenance of past inequalities, the production of new inequalities and the breaking of previous ones, but also around the intersectionality between economic, social, ethnic, moral, cultural and environmental inequalities. Competitions, disputes and conflicts between different social groups and individuals are organized for the access to material, social, moral goods in disaster situations. New social and economic borders and new moral orders are emerging in the processes of recomposition and re-creation of Chinese, Japanese, European and Polynesian societies.