Kathleen J Tierney
Biographic Data
| ID | 216019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen J Tierney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Tierney |
| SIGNATURE | TIERNEY K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 500 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Risky Cities
The Government of Emergency
The Social Roots of Risk
Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself—that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Like sustainable development, disaster resilience can be conceptualized as a collective surge in science, policy, and practice. The strength of the resilience surge is based on the concept's usefulness as a boundary object and in particular its resonance with the discourses and practices of neoliberalization, in which the role of the state is diminished and superseded by private-public partnerships and contracts. Current U.S. resilience approache…
Social Dimensions of Disaster Recovery
Research on disaster recovery has moved beyond earlier uni-dimensional, stage-oriented, and linear conceptualizations and toward approaches that recognize variability, social inequality and diversity, and disparities in recovery processes and outcomes. Theory development has been hampered by the lack of a systematic comparative focus and a failure to contextualize recovery within broader global and societal conditions and trends. Recovery theorie…
Disaster Governance
Disaster governance is an emerging concept in the disaster research literature that is closely related to risk governance and environmental governance. Disaster governance arrangements and challenges are shaped by forces such as globalization, world-system dynamics, social inequality, and sociodemographic trends. Governance regimes are polycentric and multiscale, show variation across the hazards cycle, and tend to lack integration and to be form…
A bridge to somewhere
Growth Machine Politics and the Social Production of Risk
Hurricane in New Orleans? Who Knew? Anticipating Katrina and Its Devastation
From the Margins to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads
The sociology of disasters has developed in ways that have weakened its ties with mainstream sociology. It has remained remarkably resistant to changes in the broader sociological landscape, and its strong applied focus has been a barrier to theoretical innovation. This situation is changing, as indicated by critiques of traditional ways of conceptualizing and explaining disasters; greater acceptance of constructivist formulations; willingness to…
Foreshadowing Katrina
Metaphors Matter
It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster vict…
The 9/11 Commission and Disaster Management
The 9-11 Commission Report was considered for the National Book Award, both for the style in which it was written and for the manner in which the report provides crucial background information and puts the events of September 11, 2001 into a broader historical and policy context. My colleagues have said much the same thing in this review symposium. While that may be true for other parts of the report, such a perspective is missing from Chapter 9 …
A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities
This paper presents a conceptual framework to define seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience. This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced failure probabilities,” “Reduced consequences from failures,” and “Reduced time to recovery.” The framework also includes quantitative measures of the “end…
Facing the Unexpected
Facing the Unexpected presents the wealth of information derived from disasters around the world over the past 25 years. The authors explore how these findings can improve disaster programs, identify remaining research needs, and discuss disaster within the broader context of sustainable development. How do different people think about disaster? Are we more likely to panic or to respond with altruism? Why are 110 people killed in a Valujet crash …
Predicting long-term business recovery from disaster
This paper examines long-term recovery outcomes of businesses impacted by major natural disasters. Data were collected via two large-scale mail surveys—one administered to Santa Cruz County, California businesses 8 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake and the other administered to businesses in South Dade County, Florida, 6 years after Hurricane Andrew. Based on the results of OLS regression models, we argue that long-term recovery experiences …
Businesses and Disasters
Through five systematic, large-scale mail surveys conducted since 1993, the Disaster Research Center has obtained data on hazard awareness, preparedness, disaster impacts, and short- and long-term recovery among 5,000 private-sector firms in communities across the United States (Memphis/Shelby County, Tenn.; Des Moines, Iowa; Los Angeles, Calif.; Santa Cruz County, Calif.; and South Dade County, Fla.). This paper summarizes findings from those st…
Rebounding from disruptive events
Although the long‐term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have received increasing attention from social science researchers, little systematic research has been conducted on the processes and outcomes associated with business disaster recovery. This article attempts to fill that void by exploring the determinants of recovery within the private sector. We develop a model of business recovery by drawing from ex…
Promoting Risk
Disasters, Collective Behavior, and Social Organization
The twenty-eight authors included in this collection share an interest in the patterns of crowd actions, social movements, and social behavior in the wake of disasters and seek to advance the field of collective behavior
The Evolution of Women's Asylums since 1500
Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response in Disasters
12. Ronald Perry, Comprehensive Emergency Management (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1984). 13. James Glass, Citizen Participation in Planning, Journal of the American Planning Association 45 (April 1979), pp. 180-189. 14. Perry, 1981, p. 79. 15. This concept has been further developed in Thomas Drabek, Problems in Disaster: Family Evacuation, Social Problems 16 (1969), pp. 336-349; Charles Fritz, Disaster, in Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet,…
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Journal Article The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Get access Kathleen J. Tierney Kathleen J. Tierney University of California, Los Angeles Correspondence to: Dept. of Sociology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 February 1982, Pages 207–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/800155 Published: 30 July 2014
Relative Deprivation and Social Movements
The relative deprivation perspective was widely employed in the social movement literature of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In spite of the growing popularity of some newer approaches which criticize the relative deprivation perspective (resource mobilization or resource management perspectives), there have been no attempts to analyze and evaluate the relative deprivation perspective in any systematic fashion.The purpose of this paper is to rev…
From the Margins to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads
The sociology of disasters has developed in ways that have weakened its ties with mainstream sociology. It has remained remarkably resistant to changes in the broader sociological landscape, and its strong applied focus has been a barrier to theoretical innovation. This situation is changing, as indicated by critiques of traditional ways of conceptualizing and explaining disasters; greater acceptance of constructivist formulations; willingness to…
Metaphors Matter
It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster vict…
The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Journal Article The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Get access Kathleen J. Tierney Kathleen J. Tierney University of California, Los Angeles Correspondence to: Dept. of Sociology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 February 1982, Pages 207–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/800155 Published: 30 July 2014
Relative Deprivation and Social Movements
The relative deprivation perspective was widely employed in the social movement literature of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In spite of the growing popularity of some newer approaches which criticize the relative deprivation perspective (resource mobilization or resource management perspectives), there have been no attempts to analyze and evaluate the relative deprivation perspective in any systematic fashion.The purpose of this paper is to rev…
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Like sustainable development, disaster resilience can be conceptualized as a collective surge in science, policy, and practice. The strength of the resilience surge is based on the concept's usefulness as a boundary object and in particular its resonance with the discourses and practices of neoliberalization, in which the role of the state is diminished and superseded by private-public partnerships and contracts. Current U.S. resilience approache…
Rebounding from disruptive events
Although the long‐term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have received increasing attention from social science researchers, little systematic research has been conducted on the processes and outcomes associated with business disaster recovery. This article attempts to fill that void by exploring the determinants of recovery within the private sector. We develop a model of business recovery by drawing from ex…
Predicting long-term business recovery from disaster
This paper examines long-term recovery outcomes of businesses impacted by major natural disasters. Data were collected via two large-scale mail surveys—one administered to Santa Cruz County, California businesses 8 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake and the other administered to businesses in South Dade County, Florida, 6 years after Hurricane Andrew. Based on the results of OLS regression models, we argue that long-term recovery experiences …
Foreshadowing Katrina
The 9/11 Commission and Disaster Management
The 9-11 Commission Report was considered for the National Book Award, both for the style in which it was written and for the manner in which the report provides crucial background information and puts the events of September 11, 2001 into a broader historical and policy context. My colleagues have said much the same thing in this review symposium. While that may be true for other parts of the report, such a perspective is missing from Chapter 9 …
Growth Machine Politics and the Social Production of Risk
Risky Cities
A bridge to somewhere
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
The Derelicts of Company K
The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Journal Article The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Get access Kathleen J. Tierney Kathleen J. Tierney University of California, Los Angeles Correspondence to: Dept. of Sociology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 February 1982, Pages 207–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/800155 Published: 30 July 2014
Relative Deprivation and Social Movements
The relative deprivation perspective was widely employed in the social movement literature of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In spite of the growing popularity of some newer approaches which criticize the relative deprivation perspective (resource mobilization or resource management perspectives), there have been no attempts to analyze and evaluate the relative deprivation perspective in any systematic fashion.The purpose of this paper is to rev…
Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response in Disasters
12. Ronald Perry, Comprehensive Emergency Management (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1984). 13. James Glass, Citizen Participation in Planning, Journal of the American Planning Association 45 (April 1979), pp. 180-189. 14. Perry, 1981, p. 79. 15. This concept has been further developed in Thomas Drabek, Problems in Disaster: Family Evacuation, Social Problems 16 (1969), pp. 336-349; Charles Fritz, Disaster, in Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet,…
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
The Evolution of Women's Asylums since 1500
Disasters, Collective Behavior, and Social Organization
The twenty-eight authors included in this collection share an interest in the patterns of crowd actions, social movements, and social behavior in the wake of disasters and seek to advance the field of collective behavior
Promoting Risk
Rebounding from disruptive events
Although the long‐term effects of disasters and the factors that affect the ability to recover have received increasing attention from social science researchers, little systematic research has been conducted on the processes and outcomes associated with business disaster recovery. This article attempts to fill that void by exploring the determinants of recovery within the private sector. We develop a model of business recovery by drawing from ex…
Businesses and Disasters
Through five systematic, large-scale mail surveys conducted since 1993, the Disaster Research Center has obtained data on hazard awareness, preparedness, disaster impacts, and short- and long-term recovery among 5,000 private-sector firms in communities across the United States (Memphis/Shelby County, Tenn.; Des Moines, Iowa; Los Angeles, Calif.; Santa Cruz County, Calif.; and South Dade County, Fla.). This paper summarizes findings from those st…
Facing the Unexpected
Facing the Unexpected presents the wealth of information derived from disasters around the world over the past 25 years. The authors explore how these findings can improve disaster programs, identify remaining research needs, and discuss disaster within the broader context of sustainable development. How do different people think about disaster? Are we more likely to panic or to respond with altruism? Why are 110 people killed in a Valujet crash …
Predicting long-term business recovery from disaster
This paper examines long-term recovery outcomes of businesses impacted by major natural disasters. Data were collected via two large-scale mail surveys—one administered to Santa Cruz County, California businesses 8 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake and the other administered to businesses in South Dade County, Florida, 6 years after Hurricane Andrew. Based on the results of OLS regression models, we argue that long-term recovery experiences …
A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities
This paper presents a conceptual framework to define seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience. This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced failure probabilities,” “Reduced consequences from failures,” and “Reduced time to recovery.” The framework also includes quantitative measures of the “end…
The 9/11 Commission and Disaster Management
The 9-11 Commission Report was considered for the National Book Award, both for the style in which it was written and for the manner in which the report provides crucial background information and puts the events of September 11, 2001 into a broader historical and policy context. My colleagues have said much the same thing in this review symposium. While that may be true for other parts of the report, such a perspective is missing from Chapter 9 …
Foreshadowing Katrina
Metaphors Matter
It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster vict…
From the Margins to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads
The sociology of disasters has developed in ways that have weakened its ties with mainstream sociology. It has remained remarkably resistant to changes in the broader sociological landscape, and its strong applied focus has been a barrier to theoretical innovation. This situation is changing, as indicated by critiques of traditional ways of conceptualizing and explaining disasters; greater acceptance of constructivist formulations; willingness to…
Hurricane in New Orleans? Who Knew? Anticipating Katrina and Its Devastation
Growth Machine Politics and the Social Production of Risk
Social Dimensions of Disaster Recovery
Research on disaster recovery has moved beyond earlier uni-dimensional, stage-oriented, and linear conceptualizations and toward approaches that recognize variability, social inequality and diversity, and disparities in recovery processes and outcomes. Theory development has been hampered by the lack of a systematic comparative focus and a failure to contextualize recovery within broader global and societal conditions and trends. Recovery theorie…
Disaster Governance
Disaster governance is an emerging concept in the disaster research literature that is closely related to risk governance and environmental governance. Disaster governance arrangements and challenges are shaped by forces such as globalization, world-system dynamics, social inequality, and sociodemographic trends. Governance regimes are polycentric and multiscale, show variation across the hazards cycle, and tend to lack integration and to be form…
A bridge to somewhere
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Like sustainable development, disaster resilience can be conceptualized as a collective surge in science, policy, and practice. The strength of the resilience surge is based on the concept's usefulness as a boundary object and in particular its resonance with the discourses and practices of neoliberalization, in which the role of the state is diminished and superseded by private-public partnerships and contracts. Current U.S. resilience approache…
The Social Roots of Risk
Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself—that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.
Risky Cities
Disaster Management and Resilience (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Emergency management (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works)