For your midterm, please write a 1500 2000 word paper on the following prompt:
What are the limits of the concept of natural disaster? How should climate change provoke us to re-conceptualize the relationship between nature, society, and disaster? Discuss this in relation to a recent natural disaster of your choice (in the past ten years). What is currently happening in Texas may be of particular interest but feel free to choose whatever example you like.
Step 1: Topic Choice and Annotated Bibliography
(I haver attached the annotated bibliography , which I already did for use , with all the sources you will need to write this paper.)
Write a one-paragraph narrative abstract of your paper in which you concisely respond to the prompt and describe your case study natural disaster.
Choose 2 sources from the syllabus (up to week 7) and 1-2 academic or media sources from outside the syllabus and write one paragraph justifying their use to support your main argument.
-(I haver attached the annotated bibliography to help , with all the sources you will need to write this paper.)
Step 2: Final Paper Due
You will be graded on the following conditions
Meeting the citational criterion listed above.
Natural disaster must be defined and interrogated. You must describe both the potential and the limits of the concept and show an understanding of how the concept is deployed in specific contexts.
You must make an argument about how nature is deployed as a social and political concept in the context of climate related disasters using specific evidence from your chosen site.
Each of these assignments should be posted under the Assignments tab on Canvas by their due dates.
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