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Collective efficacy, social capital and resilience: An inquiry into the relationship between social infrastructure and resilience after Hurricane Katrina
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Kadetz, Paul; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
Not all communities are equally resilient. Not all communities have the ability to positively adapt to, withstand and recover from risk, adversity, and socioenvironmental shocks. This qualitative research of 155 in-depth semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of pertinent stakeholders, conducted over a period of 2 years, identifies how the complex relationships between social cohesion, trust, and equality can impact social capital and collective efficacy. This research also examines the ability of communities to withstand the deleterious impacts of structural violence and economic neoliberalization and to ultimately improve community resilience and well-being in the wake of disasters and humanitarian crises. The predominantly Vietnamese community of New Orleans East serves as a case example that illustrates the importance and centrality of collective efficacy and social capital in fostering resilient communities.
Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018) Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area, and the progression to disaster vulnerability as well as resilience pathways. The book integrates the understanding of vulnerability and resiliency by examining the relationships among these two concepts and theories. The disaster knowledge of diverse disciplines and professions is brought together in this book, with authors from social work, public health, community organizing, sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, anthropology, geography and the study of religion. The editors offer both expert and an insider perspectives on Katrina because they have lived in New Orleans and experienced Katrina and the recovery. An improved understanding of the recovery and reconstruction phases of disaster is also presented, and these disaster stages have been the least examined in the disaster and emergency management literature.
Culture and resilience: How music has fostered resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Morris, James R.G.; Kadetz, Paul; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
Music and musicians are integral to the culture of New Orleans. This research examines the resilience of a group of musicians after Hurricane Katrina. Resilience and vulnerability to the impacts of Hurricane Katrina were assessed using qualitative research methods employing ethnographic interview techniques. Data were analyzed using the Variable-Generating Activity (VGA) protocol. Research questions addressed themes of Risk Factors, Stress, and Mental Health; Protective Factors and Assets; Social Support; Connections to Community and Mentoring; and the Impact of Music Performance on Performers and Audience Members. The results, based upon interviews with 10 New Orleans musicians, reflect the important relationships between culture and resilience and provide an evidence base for disaster-relief work, community-based healing and practice, and interventions with at-risk populations.
Dynamics of early recovery in two historically low-income New Orleans’ neighborhoods: Tremé and Central City
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul; Papendieck, Adam; Coates, Jeffrey; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
Postdisaster community level analysis is essential for long-term community viability and resilience. This chapter analyzes the early recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in two low-income New Orleans neighborhoods; Tremé and Central City, which created a unique partnership between academics and communities. This analysis is based on a novel project that used participatory and action research. The results demonstrate the importance of using neighborhood-level mixed-methods research and multilevel analysis to better inform the recovery process. Lessons derived from this research can inform similar recovery efforts in future recovery contexts.
Editors’ introduction: The voices of the barefoot scholars
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
This book will examine one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States. Hurricane Katrina resulted in the near-total destruction of a major US metropolitan area (Knabb, Rhome, & Brown 2005), with over 1500 deaths in New Orleans (alone) in the immediate impact period (Osofsy et al., 2009). Eighty percent of the city's area and built structures were flooded (Cigler, 2007). The disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, in August 2005, will be examined through an historical perspective with the goal of clarifying how vulnerability and resilience interacted to affect the postdisaster recovery and sustainability of New Orleans and coastal Louisiana. The years after Katrina offer many lessons concerning the growing vulnerability associated with sea-level rise and climate extremes. The examination of the precursors and sequelae of Hurricane Katrina through a complex systems lens, with a strong emphasis on local knowledge and capacity, offers important lessons for urban and coastal regions. We develop the theoretical and conceptual framing for this volume, including the concept of structural violence. Finally, we provide a brief overview of the book chapters.
Epilogue: Back to the future?
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Kadetz, Paul; Mock, Nancy B.; Zakour, Michael J.; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
Problematizing vulnerability: Unpacking gender, intersectionality, and the normative disaster paradigm
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Kadetz, Paul; Mock, Nancy B.; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
In crises, social exclusions thwart both access to resources and options out of vulnerability. Thus, sociocultural systems that privilege certain groups over others before a disaster ultimately produce the postdisaster vulnerability of those excluded groups. Yet, gender inequality and other forms of domination and exclusion have remained largely unexamined in US disaster research and interventions; which is often more concerned with technology and the rebuilding of physical infrastructure, than strengthening the social infrastructure. Dependence upon an essentialized depiction of vulnerability and “disaster victims,” while ignoring the predisaster social factors that engender and perpetuate inequality, exclusion, and lack of access to resources, serves to exacerbate the problem of postdisaster vulnerability. Thus, in order to address gendered and intersectional vulnerability in disasters, all of the complex factors contributing to vulnerability and inequality would need to be collectively assessed. But this would require analysis in disaster preparedness, recovery, and reconstruction that is far more specific than current aggregated groupings of sex, gender, and race/ethnicity. The complexity of gendered vulnerability through more complete data collection would provide a means to disaggregate gender via a series of criteria that include income, age, ethnicity, marriage status, sexual orientation, as well as other specific criteria, such as education, religion, disability and HIV-status. A response and recovery emphasis on strengthening local capacity of the most vulnerable in any group is essential. This chapter examines the intersections of gender, race, class, and other marginalized groups in the creation of postdisaster vulnerability in New Orleans. While pre-Katrina gendered vulnerability was stark, the lack of focus on the reduction of disparities provides important lessons for other contexts.
A systems approach to vulnerability and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans
(Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017-11-17) Mock, Nancy B.; Schigoda, Melissa; Kadetz, Paul; Zakour, Michael J.; Mock, Nancy B.; Kadetz, Paul
This chapter examines a systems approach for understanding the complex linkages between vulnerability and resilience in disaster recovery. We identify several key features of complex systems in general and the complex system of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in particular. This chapter explores the role of information in complex systems, as well as the role of The New Orleans Index in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. We also examine the influence of collective action, culture, and aid for harnessing information for disaster recovery planning. This chapter concludes that a recovery indicator project, such as The New Orleans Index, will prove valuable in similar contexts, as will mechanisms that facilitate the collection and analysis of additional and more granular information for communities impacted by a disaster.