Testimonio : ¿Un damnificado experto o un experto damnificado?

Testimonio de un testigo de las torrenciales lluvias que afectaron varias regiones de Venezuela, durante las primeras tres semanas de diciembre de 1999, las cuales originaron el peor desastre natural de que se tenga memoria en Venezuela. La catástrofe ocasinó miles de víctimas y miles de millones de dólares en pérdidas materiales afectando drásticamente la economía del país y medio ambiente. Los daños se concentraron primordialmente en la zona costera del Estado Vargas al norte de Caracas

The expert as evacuee : An eyewitness account of the Venezuelan floods of' 99

A witness of the strong rains that affected several Venezuelan regions gives his testimony. During the first 3 weeks of December, 1999, the worst natural disaster Venezuela ever suffered occured. The disaster provokedthousands of victims, thousands of millions dollars in material loses, which drastically affected the countryïs economy and environment. Most of the damages were in the coast in the state Vargas to the nort of Caracas

Paradigmatic disaster? : The crash of trans world airlines (TWA) flight 800

This paper uses two discourses - Kuhnïs (1962) formulation of paradigm and cognitive theory (specifically that of social schemas) -to deconstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and National Transportation Safety Boardïs (NTBïS) investigation into the 1996 TWA Flight 800 disaster. Following the disaster, concerns were expressed in the media that the FBI and NTSB might not be approaching the investigation with an entirely open mind. Certainly a number of statements were made by FBI and NTSB managers that seemed to indicate a preferred conclusion as to cause(s) of the disaster. This paper uses social schema theory and Kuhnïs discourse on the paradigm to ascertain, on the basis of widely reported statements, the degree to which the FBI and NTSB investigators stated a preference- expressed either overtly in statements, or covertly through investigative method- in the matter of causation (AU)