The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social learning in a post-disaster environmentIn August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that under normal circumstances made their lives "work". Katrina raised the questions of whether and how communities could solve the complex social coordination problems catastrophic disaster poses, and what inhibits them from doing so? Professor Chamlee-Wright investigates not only the nature of post-disaster recovery, but the nature of the social order itself – how societies are able to achieve a level of complex social coordination that far exceeds our ability to design. By deploying the tools of both political economy and cultural economy, the book contributes to the bourgeoning literature on the social, political and economic impact of Hurricane Katrina. Through a selection of case studies, the author argues that post-disaster resilience depends crucially upon the discovery that unfolds within commercial and civil society. The book will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and researchers in economics, sociology and anthropology as well as disaster specialists. |
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... Collective action in the wake of disaster: social capital rebuilding strategies of early returnees 39 4 Social capital, community narratives, and recovery within a VietnameseAmerican neighborhood 57 5 Collective narratives and ...
... collective action problem are most severe. This chapter examines patterns of response that emerged from private ... narratives of identity and place by which people define their community appear to be at work. In each case, the collective ...
... collective narratives of “who we are”—in the form of a working class identity, a collective narrative of being a neglected community, and a narrative of cultural and political independence—have shaped strategies for action. Specifically ...
... collective narratives and cultural tools described in these cases are not meant to suggest that only socially embedded resources matter in the recovery process. We must take it for granted that storm victims who experience lower flood ...
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Contents
The nature and causes of social order as seen through postdisaster | |
Qualitative methods and the pursuit of economic understanding 23 | |
Deploying socially embedded resources in a postdisaster | |
Social capital community narratives and recovery within | |
sense of place | |
Politicaleconomy and social learning in nonpriced | |
lessons for public | |
Concluding remarks 174 | |
neighborhoods of interest 181 | |
Notes 191 | |
References 203 | |
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