Blaming the victims: Hearsay, labeling, and the hazards of quick-hit disaster ethnography

American Sociological Review

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 689-698

  Klinenberg, Eric ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33749188470     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000312240607100409     Document Type: Article

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