Environmental history and disasters: Encounters between politics, technology, and society
Abstract
This article discusses intersections of politics, technology and society through an analysis of the contributions of environmental history to the study of disasters. It argues – on the basis of the case of the explosion of reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (USSR, 1986) – that it is impossible to interpret disasters through social histories, cultural histories or histories of science and technology if we consider them as independent ways of doing historical research. The complexity of such phenomena forces historical studies to consider hybridism in order to interpret some interrelated facets of disasters.
Key words: disaster, environmental history, social history, theory of history.
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