Description: Contextualizing Disaster, edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller, makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the social construction of disasters by contextualizing them in novel and diverse waysЕ The eight book chapters offer new and innovative analysis of recent disasters that to varying degrees are all translocal, and each chapter is carried by its own narrative. The book is providing fresh impetus not only for disaster scholars but also for DRR institutions and media. (Anthropos)