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This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangles tensions and dilemmas within post-disaster empowerment, through a rich ethnographic narrative of the work of Occupy Sandy in Rockaway, NYC, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
List of contents
1. Shaking Things Loose. 2. Most Affected Least Heard. 3. Ain't no Power like the Power of the People. 4. Tales of a Peninsula Shattered and Divided. 5. Paths of Empowerment in Disaster Relief. 6. Paths of Post-Disaster (Dis-) Empowerment. 7. Saviors Trapped in Disaster (Dis-) Empowerment.
About the author
Sara Bondesson, Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University, is a political scientist interested in disasters, identity and power. Sara combines theorizing with ethnographic methods, since she believes normative, emancipatory and transformative theories are best explored from the ground up. Apart from the Swedish National Defence University, she is also affiliated with the Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS). In teaching future political scientists and crisis managers she works with participatory and scenario-based methodologies and usually mix it up with story-telling or improvisational methods.
Summary
This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangles tensions and dilemmas within post-disaster empowerment, through a rich ethnographic narrative of the work of Occupy Sandy in Rockaway, NYC, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
