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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... particular interest to postgraduate students and researchers in economics, sociology and anthropology as well as disaster specialists. Emily ChamleeWright is the Elbert Neese Professor of Economics at Beloit College and Affiliated ...
... particular I would like to thank Brian Hooks and Claire Morgan for their dedication to this effort. Special thanks go to Brian, Linden and Cailin Wright for their love, patience, and support in developing this project. As we say ...
... particular residential neighborhood might rebound. Given the level of destruction, many postdisaster communities posed a genuinely open question to which no academic or political leader could honestly provide an answer in the abstract ...
... particular barriers they faced? What motivated those who did return and how did they carve out effective strategies of action? Singular explanations like floodlevels or median income, though important, leave a great deal to be explained ...
... particular social, cultural and political context. This project is appropriately included in a book series dedicated to the advancement of heterodox economics, an intellectual movement that embraces both a spirit of pluralism within the ...
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 |