Methodological Issues

Stallings, Robert A.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_4

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“…These archival data afforded by social media contributed to alleviating the problem of ephemeral (Quarantelli, 2002, p. 107) or perishable data (Bourque, Shoaf, & Nguyen, 1997) in disasterrelated studies. These freely-available data allowed us to "observe" the events that occurred in the immediate aftermath of crisis, even after the fact (Oh et al, 2013;Stallings, 2007).…”

Section: Design Of Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011

Leong¹,

Pan²,

Ractham³

et al. 2015

JAIS

109

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Section: Design Of Data Collectionmentioning

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ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011

Leong¹,

Pan²,

Ractham³

et al. 2015

JAIS

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“…Some studies define vulnerability without reference to actual responses to environmental shocks (e.g., Cutter, Boruff, and Shirley 2003), others are small-scale studies that are not obviously generalizable (e.g., Paul 2005). In the developing world studies of populations after large-scale disasters 1 typically describe individuals displaced to camps, providing little information about individuals who settled elsewhere or were not displaced (Bakewell 2008; Grais et al 2006; Jacobsen and Landau 2003; Stallings 2006). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying Displacement After a Disaster Using Large-Scale Survey Methods: Sumatra After the 2004 Tsunami

Gray

Frankenberg

Gillespie

et al. 2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Understanding of human vulnerability to environmental change has advanced in recent years, but measuring vulnerability and interpreting mobility across many sites differentially affected by change remains a significant challenge. Drawing on longitudinal data collected on the same respondents who were living in coastal areas of Indonesia before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and were re-interviewed after the tsunami, this paper illustrates how the combination of population-based survey methods, satellite imagery and multivariate statistical analyses has the potential to provide new insights into vulnerability, mobility and impacts of major disasters on population well-being. The data are used to map and analyze vulnerability to post-tsunami displacement across the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra and to compare patterns of migration after the tsunami between damaged areas and areas not directly affected by the tsunami. The comparison reveals that migration after a disaster is less selective overall than migration in other contexts. Gender and age, for example, are strong predictors of moving from undamaged areas but are not related to displacement in areas experiencing damage. In our analyses traditional predictors of vulnerability do not always operate in expected directions. Low levels of socioeconomic status and education were not predictive of moving after the tsunami, although for those who did move, they were predictive of displacement to a camp rather than a private home. This survey-based approach, though not without difficulties, is broadly applicable to many topics in human-environment research, and potentially opens the door to rigorous testing of new hypotheses in this literature.

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“…Some might argue that it is something of a leap of faith to rely on information from research conducted by others, yet this author believes that enough evidence is presented in the literature to warrant a careful look. It is this process of triangulation that gives broader validity to results derived from very specific studies (Stallings, 2006). Consequently, the goal of this paper is to line up the evidence and provide an explanatory lens with which to view it so as to convince readers to ask 'what if social control was the latent goal of Katrina's ongoing aftermath?'…”

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Controlling disasters: recognising latent goals after Hurricane Katrina

Miller

2011

Disasters

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Classic sociological theory can be used to interpret the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in the United States on 29 August 2005. The delayed and ineffective response to the storm and the subsequent failure of the levees become more understandable when one considers the latent goals of social control in disaster recovery. Constructing the survivors as suspect or criminal and conceptualising the impacts of the disaster as individual problems occurred in order to justify the emphasis on controlling the survivors of Katrina rather than on assisting them. Parallels are drawn here between the disaster response featuring social control efforts and a recent paradigmatic shift in criminal justice from justice to 'risk management'. Recognition of the implicit aims of the inadequate disaster response provides a more complete explanation of why post-Katrina efforts failed to achieve the manifest goals of response and recovery. The conclusion suggests ways to ensure more equitable and just disaster responses.

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Methodological Issues

Cited by 59 publications

References 20 publications

ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011

ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011

Studying Displacement After a Disaster Using Large-Scale Survey Methods: Sumatra After the 2004 Tsunami

Controlling disasters: recognising latent goals after Hurricane Katrina

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