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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... community would fail to rebound. In short, the postKatrina context presented a collective action problem of ... rebound. Given the level of destruction, many postdisaster communities posed a genuinely open question to which no academic ...
... community rebound) and politicaleconomic processes (such as the political economy dynamics created through ... recovery. But the broader aim is to understand how healthy societies function and what, in contrast, inhibits the social ...
... community, and perhaps a loved one to the storm. I need to apologize at the ... recovery lacks this perspective, the analysis offered here may serve as an important ... rebound and rebuild that ultimately they are the source of community ...
... community was among the first to rebound following the storm. The question of how this community was able to rebound provides an ideal frame within which to investigate the role social capital investment—in this case, social capital ...
... rebound, the diversity in size of the neighborhoods being described and a host of other issues. Rather, the point in ... community rebound requires genuine discovery. The wide array of socially embedded tools and the diversity of ...
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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The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post ... Emily Chamlee-Wright No preview available - 2013 |
The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social learning in a post ... Emily Chamlee-Wright No preview available - 2010 |