The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery Social learning in a post-disaster environment

In 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 th...

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1. Verfasser: Chamlee-Wright, Emily
Format: E-Book Buch Verlag
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Routledge 2010
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
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Schriftenreihe:Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
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ISBN:9780415778046, 0415778042, 0415745438, 9780415745437, 9781135146511, 9781135146566, 1135146551, 113514656X, 0203855922, 9780203855928, 9781135146559, 1135146519
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  • Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Understanding the sources of resilience -- Part I: Theoretical frame and methodology -- 1 The nature and causes of social order as seen through post-disaster recovery -- 2 Qualitative methods and the pursuit of economic understanding -- Part II: Deploying socially embedded resources in a post-disaster context -- 3 Collective action in the wake of disaster: Social capital rebuilding strategies of early returnees -- 4 Social capital, community narratives, and recovery within a Vietnamese-American neighborhood -- 5 Collective narratives and entrepreneurial discovery in St. Bernard Parish -- 6 Negotiating structure and agency in the Ninth Ward: Sense of place and divine purpose in post-disaster recovery -- Part III: Political-economy and social learning in non-priced environments -- 7 The deleterious effects of signal noise in post-disaster recovery -- 8 Expectations anchoring and the civil society vacuum: Lessons for public policy -- 9 Concluding remarks -- Part IV: Appendices -- Appendix A: Demographic summaries of research subjects in neighborhoods of interest -- Appendix B: Sample interview guide -- Notes -- References -- Index