![]() ![]() This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories. ![]() She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. examines what disasters tell us about how human societies work, where they fail or succeed during and after moments of crisis and how the small-scale utopias. In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. From the trauma, pain, and loss of a disaster, paradise can be born. For Solnit, heaven and hell can rub shoulders with each other and exist in same time and space in different ways. ![]() Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? A Paradise Built in Hell Themes Paradise is Closer Than We Think This key theme is addressed in the book’s title. The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster ![]()
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