03167nam 22005415 450 991033770910332120240207124236.03-319-96851-310.1007/978-3-319-96851-3(CKB)4100000005471878(DE-He213)978-3-319-96851-3(MiAaPQ)EBC5485371(EXLCZ)99410000000547187820180802d2019 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGrenfell Tower[electronic resource] Preparedness, Race and Disaster Capitalism /by John Preston1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2019.1 online resource (IX, 74 p.)Palgrave Pivot3-319-96850-5 Chapter 1. Preparedness Inevitably Fails -- Chapter 2: The Grenfell Tower Fire: ‘Stay Put’ and Eliminationism -- Chapter 3: Billionaire Bunkers and Disaster Capitalism. .The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history. This book argues that preparedness for disasters has always been designed in the interests of the State and Capital rather than citizens. This was exemplified by the ‘stay put’ strategy at Grenfell Tower which has historically been used to socially control racialised working class groups in a disaster. ‘Stay put’, where fire safety is compromised along with strategic ambiguity, probabilistically eliminates these groups. Grenfell Tower is a purposive part of ‘Disaster Capitalism’, an asocial racial and class eliminationism, where populations have become unvalorisable and disposable. We have reached a point where even the ruling class are fleeing from the disasters and chaos they have inflicted on the world, retreating to their billionaire bunkers. This timely book will be of interest to sociologists, social theorists and activists in understanding the racialised, classed and capitalist nature of contemporary disasters.Palgrave pivot.Social structureEqualityRacism in the social sciencesCitizenship—Sociological aspectsSocial Structure, Social Inequalityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22010Sociology of Racismhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22260Sociology of Citizenshiphttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22290Social structure.Equality.Racism in the social sciences.Citizenship—Sociological aspects.Social Structure, Social Inequality.Sociology of Racism.Sociology of Citizenship.305Preston Johnauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut539457BOOK9910337709103321Grenfell Tower2497756UNINA