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Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
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Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
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Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the
efforts of human service practitioners to support communities
facing the impacts of large-scale hazardous events. Using the
stories of frontline workers and managers who lived through
devastating earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand in 2010 and
2011, and drawing on international research and sociological
theory, van Heugten astutely analyses the challenges and
opportunities that arise. In the immediate aftermath of disasters,
there is often a surge in altruism giving rise to hope for improved
social cohesion. This hope wanes when negative impacts fall
unequally on people living in poverty and other vulnerable
populations. Political, financial, and professional interest groups
vie for power and local citizens' voices are frequently overruled.
Human service workers act as boundary spanners, networking between
organizations to draw attention to the concerns of vulnerable
people, and to advocate for human rights and social justice.
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