Patterns of vulnerability : a brief history of the West Kootenay Y2K Alliance

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dc.contributor.authorHowes, Kenneth Normanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T17:25:50Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T17:25:50Z
dc.date.copyright2000en_US
dc.date.issued2000
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThe theme of this paper is vulnerability, situated within the context of an ethnographic account of a grassroots community organization called the West Kootenay Y2K Alliance, which evolved in Nelson, BC in late 1998. The objective of this thesis is to describe the local construction of Y2K - the Millennium computer problem - as a technological risk and how these factors influenced the mobilization of a community emergency preparedness and awareness effort in the Kootenay region. The perspective is political ecological and the approach allegorical. Sociocultural factors have been addressed from both a micro and macro level, providing insights into the manner in which the totality of social life plays into the intensity of disaster, and the speed of recovery from their impacts.
dc.format.extent142 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/18221
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titlePatterns of vulnerability : a brief history of the West Kootenay Y2K Allianceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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