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Politics of Catastrophe John Van Rys Where most studies of MediterraneanThis book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage. At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many