Sociology of Disasters

Wachtendorf, Tricia; Meyer, Michelle A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_11

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“…In general terms, we can wonder if and how the management of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences do produce a path break or are path dependent on the basis of previous trends in the territorialization of social policy. The sociology of disasters (Peek et al 2021) often maintains that such crises do selectively accelerate and reinforce existing processes. Thus, we may speculate that territorial trends in sovereignty, policy, context and politics are hastened as a consequence of these events.…”

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Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare

Kazepov¹,

Barberis²,

Cucca³

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Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare

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Barberis²,

Cucca³

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“…At its beginnings, the sociology of disasters focused on disaster response in applied settings (see Peek, Wachtendorf, and Meyer, 2021; Tierney, 2019). This ‘classic’ (Tierney, 2007) scholarship importantly conveyed how social organization is emergent after a disaster in contrast to a model that assumes widespread panic among affected populations (Fritz & Marks, 1954; Quarantelli & Dynes, 1977).…”

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“…On one hand, environment and climate change may be the most tightly bound to the sociology of disasters: the physical processes associated with disasters are environmental, and a high degree of overlap with scholarship in environmental sociology is increasingly characteristic of the field (Peek, Wachtendorf, and Meyer, 2021; although this is a more recent integration (Tierney, 2012a)). On the other hand, incorporating socio‐environmental processes outside of the disaster itself is comparably infrequent: for instance, studies analyzing environmental changes in land development or sea level rise because of climate change are rarer.…”

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“…Our perspectives build on existing reviews of disasters research (Arcaya et al., 2020; Peek, Wachtendorf, and Meyer, 2021; Reid, 2013a) in four ways. First, we take a unique point of departure by considering how a well‐received review (Tierney, 2007) was reflected in published research moving forward by analyzing social inequality in particular.…”

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Inequalities and interrelations: The sociology of disasters at a new crossroads

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While the sociology of disasters was slow to incorporate the study of inequality in analyses, recent research in the field has centered the study of inequality. Powered by changing empirical terrain in the form of climate change and by theoretically engagement with other sociological subfields, our article showcases how this research analyzes inequality by tracing three research motifs of scale, time, and feedbacks. Using a data set of nearly 200 articles published in the field including all 57 articles published in 10 generalist sociology journals from 2008 to 2020, we relate this perspective on scale, time, and feedbacks to eight primary areas of work in the sociology of disasters: (1) community, social capital, and resilience; (2) migration and displacement; (3) race; (4) gender; (5) intersectionality; (6) health and wellness; (7) governance and policy; and (8) environment and climate change. Our discussion champions future research on feedbacks by providing a theoretical backing with social theory on relational inequality as well as by substantiating it empirically with the eight areas of research.

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“…Disaster researchers, particularly disaster sociologists and emergency management scholars, have generally come to agree that hazard events may be categorized as emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes and that the distinctions between these hazard event types have important management implications (Barnshaw, Letukas and Quarantelli 2008; Jensen 2010; Peek, Wachtendorf and Meyer 2021; Phillips, Neal and Webb 2017; Quarantelli 2000 a , 2005; Tierney 2008, 2019). Simply, different hazard event types necessitate different approaches to response.…”

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Revisiting emergencies, disasters, & catastrophes: Adding duration to the hazard event classification

Montano,

Savitt

2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Disaster researchers have long sought to classify hazard events using various characteristics. Despite varying perspectives on how hazard events differ, the most commonly used classification in disaster scholarship categorizes hazard events as either emergencies, disasters, or catastrophes, which generally are described as being distinguished based on impacts, needs, stakeholder involvement, and management approach. Although this hazard event classification is useful, disaster scholars have noted it needs further refinement and development. In an effort to address these calls from disaster scholars and create a more robust hazard event classification, the traditional classification is revisited and expanded. Specifically, this article proposes the addition of a second dimension, response duration, to the existing hazard event type classification, which to this point has largely been defined by scale of impacts, needs, stakeholder involvement, and management approach. This paper argues short and long-duration emergencies, disasters, and catastrophes are categorically different and therefore require different management approaches, and can be used to categorize and distinguish between events such as COVID-19 and Hurricane Katrina and the Levee Failure. The proposed change would have important implications for emergency management practice and policy and would encourage a re-evaluation of the kinds of hazard events considered to be part of the academic purview of emergency management.

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Sociology of Disasters

Cited by 14 publications

References 128 publications

Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare

Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare

Inequalities and interrelations: The sociology of disasters at a new crossroads

Revisiting emergencies, disasters, & catastrophes: Adding duration to the hazard event classification

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