{"product_id":"alerta-isbn-9780262545518","title":"¡Alerta!","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threatening environments.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico City more than a minute to prepare before the next big quake hits. How does this kind of environmental monitoring technology get built in the first place? How does its life-saving promise align with reality? And who shapes modern risk mitigation? In \u003ci\u003e¡Alerta!\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Reddy surveys this innovation to shed light on what it means to imagine a world where sirens could sound out an \u003ci\u003e¡alerta sísmica!\u003c\/i\u003e at any moment—and what it would be like to live in such a world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProponents of earthquake early warnings have\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elong held that the technology can save lives and limit economic losses. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival data, Reddy conducts a thorough, qualitative analysis of these claims and considers the requirements and uses of the alert system. She embeds her study in a rich narrative of the engineers who designed the system in conjunction with contingent political and environmental conditions. The result demonstrates how addressing earthquake dangers is no small task: it means trying to change relationships between the environment, society, and technology. Doing so, she critiques universalist and techno-centric approaches to hazard risk mitigation and celebrates the potential of contextually appropriate and broadly supported efforts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e¡Alerta! \u003c\/i\u003etakes readers on a vivid journey into the world of Mexican earthquake risk mitigation, with critical insights for anthropologists and science and technology studies scholars, as well as specialists in the geosciences, engineering, and emergency management.Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI Environment, Society, and Technology\u003cbr\u003e1 Life with Earthquakes 15\u003cbr\u003e2 Earthquakes and Warnings 41\u003cbr\u003eII Risk Mitigation Technology\u003cbr\u003e3 A Technology to Mitigate Risk 65\u003cbr\u003e4 Integrating Infrastructures 83\u003cbr\u003eIII Engineering Risk Mitigation \u003cbr\u003e5 Measuring Earthquakes like Engineers 103\u003cbr\u003e6 Fieldwork and New Encounters 123\u003cbr\u003eConclusion 143\u003cbr\u003eMethodological Appendix 147\u003cbr\u003eNotes 159\u003cbr\u003eIndex 209“What does the risk society look, sound, and feel like when it rumbles beneath our feet? Taking Mexican earthquake science as her ethnographic anchor, Reddy reveals how nature, disaster, and politics become qualitatively transformed when they become objects of calculation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Stefan Helmreich, Professor of Anthropology, MIT; author of \u003ci\u003eA Book of Waves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Reddy is Assistant Professor of Engineering, Design, \u0026amp; Society at the Colorado School of Mines, with a joint appointment in Geophysics.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301691543781,"sku":"NP9780262545518","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545518.jpg?v=1767721203","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/alerta-isbn-9780262545518","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}