Citation

Bankoff G, Oven K. Disasters 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Geography, Durham University, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/disa.12362

PMID

31231813

Abstract

There is an assumption that with the disintegration of the USSR the Second World ceased to exist. Yet the demise of the Communist bloc as a geopolitical reality did not mean that it ceased to exert a defining influence over how people think and behave. This article examines how the postsocialist state in Kazakhstan deals with potential crises such as earthquakes and the extent to which the Soviet legacy still shapes intellectual debates, state structures and civil society organisations in in that country. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews, this paper re-examines the Second World not only in its historical context but re-establishes it as a conceptual framework for considering DRR in the former Soviet Bloc. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Language: en

Keywords

DRR; Earthquakes; Kazakhstan; Postsocialism; Second World