Ecologies of Inequity : How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medwinter, Sancha Doxilly, author.

Series:

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : University of Georgia Press, 2023.

Language Note:

eng

Summary:

With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster survivors lose ground to their White, middleclass-to-affluent and Black middle-class homeowner neighbors during official disaster response. Medwinter presents analyses from 120 conversational and expert interviews with disaster responders and survivors in New York City, beginning as early as twelve days after the November 2012 landfall of Superstorm Sandy. The settings are Carnarsie, Brooklyn, and the Rockaway peninsula, which experienced six to eight feet of flooding. The color- and class-blind assumptions of disaster responders and the labyrinthine process of obtaining a FEMA grant combine to exclude and increase the psychological burden of urban poor disaster survivors. Similarly, the locational decisions and volunteer service perimeters uncritically replicate the segregation logics of urban spaces. Part of this story explains how the chronically poor repeatedly get displaced by the machinery of official disaster response. One reason is the introduction of a race- and class-blind disaster "logic of response" that caters to the needs of the newly created class of "disaster victims," while displacing the "logic of service," which typically attempts to address the needs of the chronically poor.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Contents / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Acknowledgments / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Prologue / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Introduction / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Ecologies Of Inequity / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Race-Class Logics Of Urban Spaces / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Black Immigrants And Disaster Inequality / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Labyrinth Bureaucracy / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Social Capital In Crisis / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Logic Of Response Versus Services / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Social Capital Privilege / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Organizational Networks Of High And Low Capital / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Conclusion / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Epilogue / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Appendix A / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Appendix B / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Appendix C / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

References / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Index / Sancha Doxilly Medwinter

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820367408

0820367400

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access