Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 38, Issue -, Pages 230-242Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.03.006
Keywords
Disasters; Hazards; Adaptation; Gramsci; Common sense; Hegemony; Civil society; State
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- European Union [244443, 289374]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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This article analyzes a political process in the aftermath of a disaster and explains why and how it led to maladaptation. Grounding Gramsci's theory of the State on a case of post-disaster response to a fatal mudslide in the city of Sarno in Italy, this research argues that, under certain conditions, civil society and the ruling classes may coalesce to produce policies that are maladaptive. We unpack the mechanisms through which consent was reproduced in Sarno, and show how the claims of civil society were articulated and fused with the hegemonic goals of capital circulation and economic growth, reaffirming a view of government as only a provider of safety. A Gramscian treatment of the State as a process, and not as a thing, highlights that the main barrier to adaptation is not the lack of techno-managerial solutions. It is the lack of political struggle around the social reconfiguration of the logic and functions of the State. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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