Vajont

ENDORSEMENTS “Marco Armiero's brilliant analysis of the Vajont tragedy—a disaster caused by hubristic terraforming—is a powerful critique of technological overreach and technocratic indifference to the voices of the marginalized. This is a book of urgent relevance to the world of the Anthropocene.” —Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement “Marco Armiero has written a hard-hitting, judicious account of a devastating 1963 flood disaster in northern Italy that beautifully spells out the natural limits to human history. Vajont is the perfect antidote in a world in which the arrogance of the powerful seems to know no limits.” —Ted Steinberg, author of Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America “Resistance speaks in many voices. Through his extraordinary stories, Marco Armiero has shown us that it is expressed not only in words, but also in bodies, in places, and in undisciplined ways of thinking about problems. Vajont is one of those books that will stay with you for a long time, revealing what lies beneath the surface of what politics calls an ‘environmental tragedy.’” —Serenella Iovino, James Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professor in Humanities, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill