Ecologies of Inequity (eBook)

How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality

Sancha Doxilly Medwinter (Autor)

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2023
198 Seiten
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-6382-0 (ISBN)

Infos

With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster survivors lose ground to their White, middleclass-to-affluent and Black middle-class homeowner neighbors during official disaster response. Medwinter presents analyses from 120 conversational and expert interviews with disaster responders and survivors in New York City, beginning as early as twelve days after the November 2012 landfall of Superstorm Sandy. The settings are Carnarsie, Brooklyn, and the Rockaway peninsula, which experienced six to eight feet of flooding.The color- and class-blind assumptions of disaster responders and the labyrinthine process of obtaining a FEMA grant combine to exclude and increase the psychological burden of urban poor disaster survivors. Similarly, the locational decisions and volunteer service perimeters uncritically replicate the segregation logics of urban spaces. Part of this story explains how the chronically poor repeatedly get displaced by the machinery of official disaster response. One reason is the introduction of a race- and class-blind disaster "e;logic of response"e; that caters to the needs of the newly created class of "e;disaster victims,"e; while displacing the "e;logic of service,"e; which typically attempts to address the needs of the chronically poor.

Autor

SANCHA DOXILLY MEDWINTER is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Black immigrants • Brooklyn • Canarsie • Caribbean immigrants • CBOs • Churches • Church leaders • citizenship inequality • City • Class Inequality • coalition • community-based organizations • conversational interview • Crisis capital • disadvantage • disaster • Disaster Area • disaster inequality • disaster management • disaster relief centers • disaster relief organizations • disaster responders • Disaster Response • disaster response area • disaster survivors • Disaster victims • Ecological Racism • Ecologies • Ecology • ethnography • federal disaster assistance • FEMA • governmental • inequity • Interview • legal status • narrative analysis • narrative inquiry • New York City • NGO (s) • nongovernmental organization (s) • Observation • organization agglomeration • organization/al inequities • organization networks • participant observation • Poor • Poverty • Privatization • race inequality • racial inequality • relational inequality • Resilience • Social capital • social capital inequality • Social capital networks • Social Networks • Social relations • Socioeconomic Status • The Rockaway peninsula • The Rockaways • undocumented immigrants • Urban Areas • Urban communities • Urban Disaster • Urban ethnography • urban poor • Urban space • voluntarism • volunteers
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-6382-0 / 0820363820
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6382-0 / 9780820363820