Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development - Rekindling Faust''s Humanism

This book provides an exploration of European disaster and development thinking inspired by a key work of European literature.

List of contents

1. Faustian Visions of 'A Free People on Free Land'
2. The Disastrous Birth of Modernity in Europe
3. Faustian Work and 'The Hope of the Poor'
4. The Rise and Fall of Faust the Developer
5. Nikola Tesla's Faustian Dream
6. The Metamorphosis of Risk Cosmopolitanism
7. Submerging Humanity and Rewilding Tesla's Homeland
8. Epilogue: The New European Wilderness

About the author

Vanessa Pupavac is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on human rights, humanitarianism and development, including Language Rights (Palgrave, 2012). She has taught courses on global development, humanitarian and disaster modules.

Product details

• Authors: Mladen Pupavac, Vanessa Pupavac, Vanessa Pupavac Pupavac, Vanessa/ Pupavac Pupavac, Pupavac Vanessa
• Assisted by: Mladen Pupavac (Editor), Vanessa Pupavac (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781538144930
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4493-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Studies in Social and Global Justice; Studies in Social and Global J
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Political science & theory, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Political science and theory