Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters: Occupy Sandy in Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy, USA Bondesson Sara
Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters: Occupy Sandy in Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy, USA Bondesson Sara This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment,…
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Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters: Occupy Sandy in Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy, USA Bondesson Sara
This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It details both a remarkable collaborative relief phase, in which marginalized communities were empowered to take active part, as well as a phase of conflict and resistance that came about as relief turned to long-term recovery.This volume particularly aims to understand how community empowerment processes can breach pre-disaster marginalization in the aftermath of disasters. It disentangles tensions and dilemmas within post-disaster empowerment, through a rich ethnographic narrative of the work of Occupy Sandy in Rockaway, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
In a future of potentially harsher climate related disasters and increased It connects with broader emancipatory literature on dilemmas involved in empowerment 'from the outside'.