Reconfiguración de lo político en la gestión de desastres: un análisis de la “crisis de granizo” en Quebec (1998)

Catherine Foisy; Felipe De Alba

Reshaping Policy for the Managing of Disasters: An Analysis of the Quebec 1998 ‘Ice Storm Crisis’

Authors

Catherine Foisy
Felipe De Alba

Keywords:

Crisis ecológica, democracia, gestión pública, Administración pública, sociedad civil, Quebec (Canadá)

Abstract

The article analyzes the interactions between the State and postindustrial societies in a crisis and disaster
management setting. Drawing on concepts such as ‘‘risk society’’ (BECK, 2001) and ‘‘technical democracy’’
(CALLON & al, 2001), it examines the techno-scientifi c controversy the came in the wake of the Quebec ‘‘Ice
Storm Crisis’’ (1998). The authors point out that although it is widely assumed that citizens play an essential
role in the political transformations undergone by advanced democracies, this role remained insuffi cient
then because the State was effective in managing that crisis. The paper concludes that the analysis made
high lights the principal socio-political issues and questions related to the contemporary State’s legitimacy
to act when faced with crisis and disaster management.

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Published

2009-06-24

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Foisy, C., & De Alba, F. (2009). Reshaping Policy for the Managing of Disasters: An Analysis of the Quebec 1998 ‘Ice Storm Crisis’. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 41(160), 329–342. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/75928

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Vol. XLI, núm. 160 (2009)

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