The global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in different regions of the world, here in East Asia and Europe. It produces multi-situated inequalities on a global scale, drawing new geographical, climatic, social, and moral boundaries in an “ecological cosmopolitanism.” Democratic and authoritarian governments put in place biopolitical apparatuses for societal reinvention. Individuals develop social, economic and emotional capabilities for survival, recovery, and mobilization in the post-disaster process. In Western Europe, environmental and disaster sociology has been built around a Western way of thinking about the relationship between risks, disaster, and modernity. Japanese and Chinese sociologists/anthropologists highlighted non-Western approaches to disasters. This book is a contribution to the post-Western sociology in a cross-pollinization process where “Western” and “non-Western” knowledge about disaster do interact, articulated through cosmovisions to move towards dialogical between East Asia and Europe.
