A list of disasters, crises, catastrophes, emergencies, and other exceptional situations. This list will primarily (but not entirely) be geared toward cases that can tell us something about disaster mediation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human history obviously includes more of these than we could possibly list here. Instead of aiming for the comprehensive, let’s instead use this space to assemble a listing of examples that have come up in our readings and class discussions. If there are any examples large or small that you would like to include here please let me know and I’ll be happy to add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In culling this list let’s keep in mind that the items we select will likely have a “global north” bias as that is where most<\/em> of us are from and where most of our attention is often focused. Let’s try our best to redress this bias by consciously trying to include international cases, and in so doing, pay attention to the ways that even classifying a given circumstance as disastrous, catastrophic, or exceptional is always politically complicated, based on what we think is normal or acceptable in different socio-economic and geographical contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Genocide of indigenous peoples in North America beginning with the arrival of the first Europeans and continuing through to the settler colonialist practices of the United States, 15th – 20th century<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Global warming & climate change, from around 1900 to present<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Titanic, 1912<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1979<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Bhopal chemical accident at Union Carbide India Limited, December 2, 1984<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant meltdown, USSR (Ukraine), April 26, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Lockerbie Bombing (Pan Am Flight 103), December 1988<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Exxon Valdez oil spill, Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24, 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0World Trade Center Bombing, 1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Oklahoma City bombing, 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Y2K bug (disaster averted), December 31, 1999<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a09\/11 terrorist attacks, 2001<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Sumatra, Indonesia, December 25, 2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Hurricane Katrina, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Haiti Earthquake, January 12, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0BP, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, April 20, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Fukushima nuclear disaster and T\u014dhoku earthquake & tsunami, March 11, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Hurricane Sandy, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Hurricane Irma & Hurricane Maria, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Hurricane Dorian, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0COVID-19 global pandemic, March 2020 – ongoing<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Port of Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion, August 4, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Norfolk Southern freight train derailment, East Palestine, Ohio, February 3, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Turkey\u2013Syria earthquake, February 6, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A list of disasters, crises, catastrophes, emergencies, and other exceptional situations. This list will primarily (but not entirely) be geared toward cases that can tell us something about disaster mediation. Human history obviously includes more of these than we could possibly list here. Instead of aiming for the comprehensive, let’s instead use this space to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classes.codeatlang.com\/disaster-media\/2023-spring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}