Remembering Future Disasters (Paperback)

Tomas Uson

ISBN 10: 383767889X / ISBN 13: 9783837678895

Published by Transcript Verlag, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. Disasters engage with time in diverse ways and cannot be fully understood as events or processes. Tomas Uson explores how time emerges from disastrous encounters. Building on ethnographic research in the Callejon de Huaylas, he analyses how cities in this Peruvian Andean region have responded to and anticipated extreme events over the past century. Inspired by the Quechua word tinkuy, or gathering in difference, this study invites readers to see disasters both as socio-material arrangements and moments where historical figures gather in conflicting ways: a valuable resource for those interested in disasters, memory, science and technology studies, decolonial perspectives, and Peruvian history. An ethnographic exploration of the multiple ways in which disasters and time are co-constituted in the Peruvian Andes. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembering Future Disasters (Paperback)
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383767889X
• ISBN 13: 9783837678895
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Disasters engage with time in diverse ways and cannot be fully understood as events or processes. Tomás Usón explores how time emerges from disastrous encounters. Building on ethnographic research in the Callejón de Huaylas, he analyses how cities in this Peruvian Andean region have responded to and anticipated extreme events over the past century. Inspired by the Quechua word tinkuy, or gathering in difference, this study invites readers to see disasters both as socio-material arrangements and moments where historical figures gather in conflicting ways: a valuable resource for those interested in disasters, memory, science and technology studies, decolonial perspectives and Peruvian history.

About the Author

Tomás Usón is a geographer and anthropologist from Santiago, Chile. His research examines the temporalities of disasters, ecological degradation and socioecological justice, drawing on approaches from science and technology studies and multispecies research. He completed his doctorate at the Institute of European Ethnology and the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2023, and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography of the same university.