Abstract
The article examines the political economy of the December 2004 tsunami in Asia. According to Naomi Klein, the national and international responses to the Boxing Day tsunami amount to a kind of neo-imperialism. She details the emergence of a predatory form of disaster capitalism that utilizes the desperation and fear ignited by catastrophe to engage in radical social and economic engineering.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Antipode |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- capitalism
- economics
- imperialism
- natural disasters
- tsunamis