Rebecca Solnit
Autor/a de Men Explain Things to Me: Updated Edition with Two New Essays
Sobre l'autor
Rebecca Solnit writes extensively on photography and landscape. She is a contributing editor to Art Issues and Creative Camera and is the author of three books. She has contributed essays to several museum catalogues including Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach and the mostra'n més Whitney Museum's Beat Culture and the New America. She was a 1993 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Jim Herrington, 2009. Courtesy of Viking Penguin.
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1961-06-24
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Llocs de residència
- San Francisco, California, USA
Novato, California, USA - Educació
- San Francisco State University (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley (M.A.|1984) - Professions
- essayist
memoirist
author - Organitzacions
- The Guardian (contributor)
Third Act (advisor) - Premis i honors
- Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction ∙ 2003)
National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (2004)
Sally Hacker Prize (2004)
Mark Lynton History Prize (2004)
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2018)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction (2019) (mostra-les totes 7)
Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography (2015) - Agent
- Frances Coady
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Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (2)
Netgalley Reads (1)
Haymarket Books (1)
Hobbies & Travel (1)
Emily's Reviews (1)
Walking (1)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 42
- També de
- 25
- Membres
- 13,451
- Popularitat
- #1,726
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 391
- ISBN
- 287
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 36
The basic premise is that fundamentally, most people will help other people in a disaster, instead of turning on each other. She takes you through major disasters through history, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, and it proves the point again and again. (And how in New Orleans, the apparent lawlessness was never as bad as it was pictured.)
Those times where things do actually go bad, it's usually because folks who are scared of losing power or privilege are responding out of fear and then creating a bad situation. (Gathering troops to protect businesses instead of helping rescue people from debris, for example. And when citizens are taking first aid supplies to help the wounded, they get shot.)
She makes the point that disasters create an opportunity for us to be better with each other, and that sometimes, that can persist past the disaster in question.
This book validated my overall optimism in human nature!
My only question, especially in some of the bigger disasters of today, such as COVID-19 and climate change... how can we capitalize on this same social good? The problem with these disasters is that there is too large a gap between the beginning of the problem and it's impact upon us, which makes it harder for us to come together against the problem the same way we would against a fire, an earthquake, or a flood...… (més)