Disasters Fast and Slow: The View from Environmental Studies

What is “slow disaster”?  Scott Frickel's contribution to the roundtable will focus on the shifting temporalities of disaster (fast, medium and slow) and consider how temporal dynamics intersect (or not) with expert cultures in near- and long-term response and recovery.  I will use these observations to trouble conceptualizations of risk and hazard in theorizing disaster, particularly drawing on the intersections among history, environmental studies, and sociology.