The political economy of a natural disaster : the Boxing Day tsunami, 2004

Angela Keys; Helen Masterman-Smith; Drew Cottle

The political economy of a natural disaster : the Boxing Day tsunami, 2004

Angela Keys
, Helen Masterman-Smith
, Drew Cottle

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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
Journal	Antipode
Publication status	Published - 2006

Keywords

capitalism
economics
imperialism
natural disasters
tsunamis

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The political economy of a natural disaster : the Boxing Day tsunami, 2004

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