28. River-City assemblages: Floods, disasters and the construction of social space

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Abstract

Through a Deleuzean ontology, we explore the social relationship with the flood as disaster, conceptually and materially, to understand the constitution of subjects in relation to a flood, and more broadly, gain insight into the continuities and ruptures of quotidian social space. In light of the confluence of flows that have local and global impacts, we argue that the wake of a disaster offers not a time for reassembling but rather a space for rearticulation.

Authors

• Daniel Sutko, North Carolina State University

• Adam Rottinghaus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill