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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... individual and community rebound) and politicaleconomic processes (such as the political economy dynamics created through postdisaster redevelopment planning). In the chapters that follow I argue that the social learning that unfolds ...
... individuals, families, and their communities possess a capacity for resilience that far surpasses what they are usually credited as having. By investigating the socially embedded resources communities have at their disposal, and the ...
... individuals and communities have deployed socially embedded resources in their recovery efforts. Chapter 3 focuses attention on the first critical months following the storm when the challenges posed by the collective action problem are ...
... individual and communitywide resilience. Chapter 5 examines the recovery effort in St. Bernard Parish, a ... individuals and communities nonetheless craft strategies for effective action out of socially embedded resources. The particular ...
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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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