Talking About Volcanoes: Institutional Narratives, the Nature of Risk, and Mount Mayon in the Philippines

• Main Author: Bankoff, Greg
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: institutional narratives; Mount Mayon; Philippines; risk perception; Anthropology; Emergency and Disaster Management; History; Volcanology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/98; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/disa.12499
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Volcanoes are talked about as if they are one and the same thing. If they are differentiated, they are referred to as active or inactive, and classified according to their structure and composition. Volcanoes, however, do not mean the same thing to all people. Mount Mayon in Albay province, Philippi...