Disasters and Social Reproduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disasters and Social Reproduction write by Peer Illner. This book was released on 2020-11-20. Disasters and Social Reproduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state. What happens when natural disasters add to their misery? This book looks at the broken relationship between the federal government and civil society in times of crisis. Mutual aid has gained renewed importance in providing relief when hurricanes, floods and pandemics hit, as cuts to state spending put significant strain on communities struggling to survive. Harking back to the self-organised welfare programmes of the Black Panther Party, radical social movements from Occupy to Black Lives Matter are building autonomous aid networks within and against the state, However, as the federal responsibility for relief is lifted, mutual aid faces a profound dilemma: do ordinary people become complicit in their own exploitation? Refraining disaster relief through the lens of social reproduction, Peer Miner tracks the shifts in American emergency aid, from the economic crises of the 1970s to the Covid-19 pandemic, raising difficult questions about mutual aid's double-edged role in cuts to social spending. As sea levels rise, climate change worsens and new pandemics sweep the globe, Miner's analysis of the interrelations between the state, the market and grassroots initiatives will prove indispensable. Book jacket.
Disasters and History
Disasters and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disasters and History write by Bas van Bavel. This book was released on 2020-10-22. Disasters and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change
The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change write by Jordan Pascoe. This book was released on 2024-05-09. The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An earthquake in Mexico City spurs the rise of democracy. A plague in South Africa lays the foundations for apartheid. A terrorist attack on New York City triggers massive shifts in global security. A global pandemic sets the stage for the largest civil rights protests in generations. Beyond their physical impact, disasters assault our certainty and shape a narrow space to alter the structure of what we believe. That change can lead us toward disinformation and authoritarianism, or it can lead us toward greater solidarity and human rights. It all depends on the choices we make as we live through crisis; on how, in fact, we choose to know each other. The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change draws on social epistemology, disaster sociology, psychology and feminist philosophy to investigate how disasters function as cauldrons of social transformation, for good and ill. We wrestle with how disasters change us, moment by moment, and provide new strategies to help these tragic eventsproduce positive social transformation, leading to a brighter future during this century of crisis.
Black Wave
Black Wave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Wave write by Daniel P. Aldrich. This book was released on 2019-07-10. Black Wave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tōhoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tōhoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding.
Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon
Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon write by Aaron Jaffe. This book was released on 2020-11-20. Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can we use Social Reproduction Theory to inform political strategy?
