Community Stress and Resources: Actions and Reactions

Hobfoll, Stevan E.; Briggs, Sylvester; Wells, Jennifer

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8486-9_6

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“…Notable exceptions include the application of the COR theory to community stress~Hobfoll, Briggs, & Wells, 1995;Hobfoll & Jackson, 1991! and a conceptual framework of the stress process developed by Israel, Checkoway, Schulz, and Zimmerman~1994!.…”

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Communities coping with change: A conceptual model

Kelly

Steed

2004

Journal Community Psychology

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Communities coping with change: A conceptual model

Kelly

Steed

2004

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“…Much past disaster research has been criticized for paying more attention to individual trauma than to how disaster stressors affect the functioning of a community as a whole (Hobfoll, Briggs, & Wells, ; Lopez‐Ibor, ). Disasters typically destroy community resources, including physical infrastructure, so that the social, political, and economic factors that surround the disaster can be more damaging than the disaster itself.…”

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The Personal Politics of Disaster: Narratives of Survivors of a South African Shanty Town Fire

Stewart

Swartz

Ward

2012

Journal Community Psychology

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Despite the fact that natural disasters occur more commonly in low and middle income countries than in wealthier countries, we know relatively little about how these disasters are experienced in such contexts. South Africa presents an especially telling example in which it is clear that natural events are affected profoundly by sociopolitical factors, including the spatial design of the apartheid city. We report here on interviews with twenty survivors of the biggest shanty town fire in the history of Cape Town, South Africa. The narratives of participants demonstrate that in order to understand the human cost of such disasters it is as important to understand the politics of the precursors of the disaster as well as what occurred subsequent to the disaster. The South African case, like that of Hurricane Katrina, underscores the fact that disaster, far from being an acute event which happens to individuals, is better understood as part of a far longer sociopolitical process affecting individuals, groups, and, indeed, societies.

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“…Hobfoll et al (1995) mentionnent que, lors de désastres naturels ou technologiques, bien que la recherche se soit penchée sur les réactions individuelles des victimes face à la dévastation de leur milieu de vie, on s'est peu intéressé à la manière dont les stresseurs agissent sur la communauté ou sur l'ensemble des groupes qui la composent.…”

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Community Stress and Resources: Actions and Reactions

Cited by 19 publications

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Communities coping with change: A conceptual model

Communities coping with change: A conceptual model

The Personal Politics of Disaster: Narratives of Survivors of a South African Shanty Town Fire

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