In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled
the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of
a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they
also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that
under normal circumstances made their lives "work". Katrina raised
the questions of whether and how communities could solve the
complex social coordination problems catastrophic disaster poses,
and what inhibits them from doing so? Professor Chamlee-Wright
investigates not only the nature of post-disaster recovery, but the
nature of the social order itself - how societies are able to
achieve a level of complex social coordination that far exceeds our
ability to design. By deploying the tools of both political economy
and cultural economy, the book contributes to the bourgeoning
literature on the social, political and economic impact of
Hurricane Katrina. Through a selection of case studies, the author
argues that post-disaster resilience depends crucially upon the
discovery that unfolds within commercial and civil society. The
book will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and
researchers in economics, sociology and anthropology as well as
disaster specialists.
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