Author: Gary A. Kreps
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
In a format of presentation, critique, and commentary, disaster researchers and sociological theorists address basic theoretical issues underlying studies of social structure and disaster. The editor's program of archival research on natural disasters, social movement organizations, and other types of social structure provides a basis for discussion.
Social Structure and Disaster ; Symposium on Social Structure and Disaster, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 15-16 May 1986
Author: Gary A. Kreps
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
In a format of presentation, critique, and commentary, disaster researchers and sociological theorists address basic theoretical issues underlying studies of social structure and disaster. The editor's program of archival research on natural disasters, social movement organizations, and other types of social structure provides a basis for discussion.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
In a format of presentation, critique, and commentary, disaster researchers and sociological theorists address basic theoretical issues underlying studies of social structure and disaster. The editor's program of archival research on natural disasters, social movement organizations, and other types of social structure provides a basis for discussion.
The Epistemology of Disasters and Social Change
Author: Jordan Pascoe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538171848
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538171848
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
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.
Bibliographic Guide to Conference Publications
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Vols. for 1975- include publications cataloged by the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library with additional entries from the Library of Congress MARC tapes.
Taking a Systems Approach to Risk Assessment and Disaster Recovery
Author: Jack L. Rozdilsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Points of Light Movement
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
How to Write an Emergency Plan
Author: David E. Alexander
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1780465556
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create increased vulnerability and risk. The response is to develop emergency plans, but there is little advice available on how to do so. This book covers the structure, content and strategic direction of such emergency plans.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1780465556
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create increased vulnerability and risk. The response is to develop emergency plans, but there is little advice available on how to do so. This book covers the structure, content and strategic direction of such emergency plans.
Market Justice
Author: Brent Z. Kaup
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139627597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Market Justice explores the challenges for the new global left as it seeks to construct alternative means of societal organization. Focusing on Bolivia, Brent Z. Kaup examines a testing ground of neoliberal and counter-neoliberal policies and an exemplar of bottom-up globalization. Kaup argues that radical shifts towards and away from free market economic trajectories are not merely shaped by battles between transnational actors and local populations, but also by conflicts between competing domestic elites and the ability of the oppressed to overcome traditional class divides. Further, the author asserts that struggles against free markets are not evidence of opposition to globalization or transnational corporations. They should instead be understood as struggles over the forms of global integration and who benefits from them.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139627597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Market Justice explores the challenges for the new global left as it seeks to construct alternative means of societal organization. Focusing on Bolivia, Brent Z. Kaup examines a testing ground of neoliberal and counter-neoliberal policies and an exemplar of bottom-up globalization. Kaup argues that radical shifts towards and away from free market economic trajectories are not merely shaped by battles between transnational actors and local populations, but also by conflicts between competing domestic elites and the ability of the oppressed to overcome traditional class divides. Further, the author asserts that struggles against free markets are not evidence of opposition to globalization or transnational corporations. They should instead be understood as struggles over the forms of global integration and who benefits from them.
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Turning Teaching Inside Out
Author: S. Davis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113733102X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning, including the voices of teachers and participants, and offers a model for courses, student life programs, and faculty training.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113733102X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning, including the voices of teachers and participants, and offers a model for courses, student life programs, and faculty training.
Organized Behavior in Disaster: Analysis and Conceptualization
Author: Russell Rowe Dynes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The study focuses on organized activities within communities experiencing disaster. It is initiated by a description of the nature of disaster involvement on the part of various community organizations. A discussion follows of the different meanings of the term 'disaster' and of the social implications created by differential characteristics of disaster agents. It is suggested that the primary disruption of the social structure is revealed in unplanned changes in interorganizational relationships. Four types of organized behavior are isolated, derived from a cross-classification of the nature of the disaster tasks and the post-impact structure. Using these four types, problems of mobilization and recruitment are discussed as well as the specific operational problems these groups experience functioning under disaster conditions. A final chapter deals with the implications of disaster research in dealing with the organizational consequences of a nuclear catastrophe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The study focuses on organized activities within communities experiencing disaster. It is initiated by a description of the nature of disaster involvement on the part of various community organizations. A discussion follows of the different meanings of the term 'disaster' and of the social implications created by differential characteristics of disaster agents. It is suggested that the primary disruption of the social structure is revealed in unplanned changes in interorganizational relationships. Four types of organized behavior are isolated, derived from a cross-classification of the nature of the disaster tasks and the post-impact structure. Using these four types, problems of mobilization and recruitment are discussed as well as the specific operational problems these groups experience functioning under disaster conditions. A final chapter deals with the implications of disaster research in dealing with the organizational consequences of a nuclear catastrophe.