Loretta Pyles
Biographic Data
| ID | 256152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loretta Pyles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loretta |
| FAMILY NAME | Pyles |
| SIGNATURE | PYLES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1116-6052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Somatic literacies and emergent response-abilities
Rewilding on slow sabbatical
The human rewilding movement seeks to regain balance between humans and the more-than-human world through particular ways of knowing and doing. During a sabbatical, I engaged in rewilding practices and employed Terrapsychological Inquiry to understand my relationship with the more-than-human world. I sought to learn how this might support my work as a scholar, educator, and change maker in the face of managerialist neoliberal strains in higher ed…
Forest Family
Understanding the Impacts of Covid-19 and Other Disaster Experiences on Motivations to Prepare for Future Disasters
Social workers are recognising the increasing frequency and severity of disasters within the context of climate change, and are concerned with supporting communities in preparing, coping and building resilience. Although social workers have had positive impacts on disaster relief and recovery throughout the world, they have been less influential in impacting communities’ and individuals’ abilities to prepare for future disasters, which requires a…
A systematic review of qualitative social work articles
Scholars have increased their interest in the body as it relates to social inequality and health. The purpose of this review was to understand social work’s engagement with and adoption of embodiment. The authors identified peer-reviewed articles to answer research questions about the number of publications, journals, countries and topic areas. There were 89 articles published over a 20-year period with the highest number in medical journals and …
Holistic Engagement and White Neoliberal Social Work
The article situates key themes on holistic engagement practice (HEP) within the context of white neoliberal social work practice. Through a secondary analysis of qualitative data using a critical phenomenological framework, the authors analyze the narratives of social workers who completed a 2-day training on holistically engaged social work practice and reflected on the impacts of the training on their work and lives. The authors explore the ro…
US systemic violence amid the Covid-19 disaster
The COVID-19 pandemic is a community and global health disaster marked not only by illness, death and trauma, but also by historically structured economic, social and cultural causes, conditions and consequences. COVID-19 reveals, perpetuates and produces structural violence and disaster capitalism. To introduce social workers to a new way of thinking about disasters, we offer a critical conceptual model depicting the historic and systemic progre…
Embodiment
[Extract] Social work is not an easy occupation in which to participate—whether as a service user, practitioner, or service administrator. By its very nature, all actors are likely to experience uncomfortable physical sensations, difficult emotions, mental stresses, and moral challenges. While not a panacea to combat the impact of the complex issues experienced during a social work encounter, research has established that the body is not only nec…
Could We Just Breathe for 30 Seconds?”
Given the still emerging evidence base about the effectiveness of practices, such as mindfulness, somatics, and integrative body-mind-spirit social work, there is a need to know more about the impacts that training in such areas can have on social workers and their professional work. This mixed-methods article reports on a pilot study that explored practitioners' perceptions regarding the impact of learning holistic engagement practice (HEP) skil…
Progressive Community Organizing
Now in its third edition, Progressive Community Organizing: Transformative Practice in a Globalizing World introduces readers to the rich practice of progressive community organizing for social change while also providing concrete tools geared toward practitioner skill building. Drawing from social movement scholarship and social theory, this book articulates a transformative approach to organizing that embraces emergent strategies and healing ju…
Progressive Community Organizing
Transformative Organizations
Healing Justice, Transformative Justice, and Holistic Self-Care for Social Workers
A self-care movement for social workers is beginning to embrace mindfulness and other forms of wellness. However, self-care is often framed as merely an individualistic pursuit and may be a tool of managerialism, reinforcing the social and economic structures and culture that are causing burnout and moral injury in the first place. Particularly for people who are marginalized, the self-care movement may ignore historical trauma and the ways that …
Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti demonstrates how social processes impact disasters as they unfold, through the distribution of power and resources, the use of discourses …
Citizen participation in disaster recovery projects and programmes in rural communities
This study investigates predictors of local participation in recovery projects and programmes following Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Using two sets of survey data, it examines whether disaster impacts and social capital (social trust and civic engagement) are associated with disaster recovery participation and compares predictors of such engagement in the two locations. Multivariate logistic …
Securitization, racial cleansing, and disaster capitalism
Through a critical discourse analysis of news media after the US Gulf Coast hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake disasters, we draw from Soss et al.’s (2011) ideas about US poverty governance – neoliberal paternalism – to identify how a similar phenomenon of ‘neoliberal disaster governance’ (NDG) operates in these contexts. NDG is a set of discourses, policies, and practices, we argue, which endeavors to control disaster survivors in order …
Decolonising Disaster Social Work
Human behaviour, particularly the neo-liberal economic system that values unlimited growth and unsustainable extraction of natural resources, is contributing to climate volatility and exacerbating disaster risk. As such, social workers are increasingly called to work in disaster settings across the globe and collaborate with many actors, such as faith-based humanitarian organisations. Unfortunately, disaster interventions may perpetuate the value…
Participation and other ethical considerations in participatory action research in post-earthquake rural Haiti
This article offers reflections on work with rural peasant organizations in Haiti to build capacities to engage in participatory action research (PAR) and sustainable community recovery and development after the 12 January 2010 earthquake. Specifically, it is based on the perspectives of an engaged scholar who has conducted ongoing research and transnational recovery and development projects in collaboration with rural disaster survivors. Drawing…
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements
In his meticulous empirical study of the role of play and creativity in social change work, Benjamin Shepard offers readers a unique scholarly analysis of these unsung dimensions of the usually wei
Building Bridges to Safety and Justice
The authors offer three narratives of women survivors who are engaged in organizing around issues of gender-based violence. Common themes include experiences of the cycle of violence, a wide range of control tactics used by abusers, the difficulties of breaking free, economic injustice, the complexities that children bring to leaving, and multiple barriers in community and public services, particularly for low-income and immigrant women. The narr…
Spirituality and Faith-Based Interventions
Research has shown that spirituality and religion are important sources of resilience and coping in adversity such as disasters, particularly for African Americans. In addition, churches and faith-based service providers are key actors in disaster relief and recovery. After Hurricane Katrina, research on survivors has focused little on the role of spirituality and religion in their recovery. This case study illustrates that even without solicitin…
Deconstructing Neoliberal Community Development Approaches and a Case for the Solidarity Economy
The solidarity economy movement is a burgeoning global justice movement that focuses on economic justice, sustainability, and democratic processes. Social workers care about alleviating poverty, but they generally adhere to neoliberal strategies and ignore transformative approaches to economic justice such as solidarity economics. Recent neoliberal community-development efforts center on approaches such as asset development, human capital buildin…
The Dialectic Method
This paper introduces Hans-Georg Gadamer's dialectic method and elaborates upon its application to social work inquiry. Its strengths lie in its ability to uncover social constructed truths, to explain human behavior in a non-deterministic manner that emphasizes personal agency and empowerment, and to foster a consciousness-raising process that leads to praxis. This makes it ideally suited for knowledge gathering by practitioners in the field who…
Work Experiences of Women Survivors
The study presented in this article applied the capabilities approach to the experiences of low-income women survivors of gender-based violence, who worked in the formal and informal economies. Nine women were interviewed about their work histories, alternative resource-generating strategies, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of work, and the impact of gender-based violence on their work lives. The authors vetted these experienc…
Global Justice in the Time of Obama
Journal Article Global Justice in the Time of Obama: A Call to Organize Get access Loretta Pyles, PhD Loretta Pyles, PhD assistant professor and director School of Social Welfare, Community and Public Service Program, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, SS 112, Albany, NY 12222; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 55, …
Community organizing for post-disaster social development
English Community revitalization is a neglected element in disaster recovery. The literature on disaster and community practice is reviewed and some community development and organizing endeavors in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are described. Social work's lack of emphasis on community organizing is a barrier to social development in post-disaster situations. French La revitalisation communautaire est un facteur né gligé dans la relè ve de…
Healing Justice, Transformative Justice, and Holistic Self-Care for Social Workers
A self-care movement for social workers is beginning to embrace mindfulness and other forms of wellness. However, self-care is often framed as merely an individualistic pursuit and may be a tool of managerialism, reinforcing the social and economic structures and culture that are causing burnout and moral injury in the first place. Particularly for people who are marginalized, the self-care movement may ignore historical trauma and the ways that …
Community Revitalization in Post-Katrina New Orleans
This research explored the role of social capital, particularly civic engagement and social trust, in community revitalization efforts in a primarily African American post-Katrina neighborhood (n = 153). Findings reveal high levels of participation in neighborhood and political activities but low levels of social trust. Eighty-four percent of this primarily African American sample reported that they do not trust people of other races as compared …
Citizen participation in disaster recovery projects and programmes in rural communities
This study investigates predictors of local participation in recovery projects and programmes following Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Using two sets of survey data, it examines whether disaster impacts and social capital (social trust and civic engagement) are associated with disaster recovery participation and compares predictors of such engagement in the two locations. Multivariate logistic …
Spirituality
In this paper, the authors examine the meaning and role of spirituality in the lives of eight women of color, participating in a welfare-to-work program. Although largely ignored in social work practice in the context of welfare reform, these women indicate through in-depth interviews that spirituality is a vital source of resilience for them. They articulate their meaning of spirituality, spiritual practices, spiritual experiences with material …
The Complexities of the Religious Response to Domestic Violence
Drawing on data from a study conducted in Wyoming about the community response to domestic violence, this article focuses on an unanticipated finding: how religion is paradoxically both a source of assistance and a barrier to women surviving domestic violence. The results indicate that although religious institutions are a resource for emotional comfort and provide practical assistance, they may also perpetuate silence. The article concludes that…
Work Experiences of Women Survivors
The study presented in this article applied the capabilities approach to the experiences of low-income women survivors of gender-based violence, who worked in the formal and informal economies. Nine women were interviewed about their work histories, alternative resource-generating strategies, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of work, and the impact of gender-based violence on their work lives. The authors vetted these experienc…
The capabilities approach and violence against women
English The capabilities approach attends to the unique situation of poor women in the context of social development, as exemplified in such concepts as household inequality and bodily integrity. The article clarifies how being safe from physical and sexual assault is critical as a social development issue. French L'approche centrée sur les capacités s'intéresse aux situations mettant en cause les femmes en situation de pauvreté dans le contexte …
Securitization, racial cleansing, and disaster capitalism
Through a critical discourse analysis of news media after the US Gulf Coast hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake disasters, we draw from Soss et al.’s (2011) ideas about US poverty governance – neoliberal paternalism – to identify how a similar phenomenon of ‘neoliberal disaster governance’ (NDG) operates in these contexts. NDG is a set of discourses, policies, and practices, we argue, which endeavors to control disaster survivors in order …
Decolonising Disaster Social Work
Human behaviour, particularly the neo-liberal economic system that values unlimited growth and unsustainable extraction of natural resources, is contributing to climate volatility and exacerbating disaster risk. As such, social workers are increasingly called to work in disaster settings across the globe and collaborate with many actors, such as faith-based humanitarian organisations. Unfortunately, disaster interventions may perpetuate the value…
Addressing the Problem of Domestic Violence
The social work profession has a complex and arguably problematic history in relation to the problem of domestic violence. Through a review of abstracts of social work articles published from 1985 to 2000, the authors sought to determine whether anything has changed since Davis’s (1987) seminal study regarding the way in which the profession addresses the problem of domestic violence. The findings indicate that although researchers have done a go…
Participation and other ethical considerations in participatory action research in post-earthquake rural Haiti
This article offers reflections on work with rural peasant organizations in Haiti to build capacities to engage in participatory action research (PAR) and sustainable community recovery and development after the 12 January 2010 earthquake. Specifically, it is based on the perspectives of an engaged scholar who has conducted ongoing research and transnational recovery and development projects in collaboration with rural disaster survivors. Drawing…
Toward a Post-Katrina Framework
In this essay the author discusses the responses of social systems to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The events revealed a hidden poverty, racism and sexism exist in America. The author proposes making use of human rights and capabilities discourse as a way to frame such global social problems, social welfare policies and social work practice in a post-Katrina environment. Implications for social work policy, practice and education are offered
Holistic Engagement and White Neoliberal Social Work
The article situates key themes on holistic engagement practice (HEP) within the context of white neoliberal social work practice. Through a secondary analysis of qualitative data using a critical phenomenological framework, the authors analyze the narratives of social workers who completed a 2-day training on holistically engaged social work practice and reflected on the impacts of the training on their work and lives. The authors explore the ro…
Embodiment
[Extract] Social work is not an easy occupation in which to participate—whether as a service user, practitioner, or service administrator. By its very nature, all actors are likely to experience uncomfortable physical sensations, difficult emotions, mental stresses, and moral challenges. While not a panacea to combat the impact of the complex issues experienced during a social work encounter, research has established that the body is not only nec…
Deconstructing Neoliberal Community Development Approaches and a Case for the Solidarity Economy
The solidarity economy movement is a burgeoning global justice movement that focuses on economic justice, sustainability, and democratic processes. Social workers care about alleviating poverty, but they generally adhere to neoliberal strategies and ignore transformative approaches to economic justice such as solidarity economics. Recent neoliberal community-development efforts center on approaches such as asset development, human capital buildin…
Could We Just Breathe for 30 Seconds?”
Given the still emerging evidence base about the effectiveness of practices, such as mindfulness, somatics, and integrative body-mind-spirit social work, there is a need to know more about the impacts that training in such areas can have on social workers and their professional work. This mixed-methods article reports on a pilot study that explored practitioners' perceptions regarding the impact of learning holistic engagement practice (HEP) skil…
Measuring the Informal Economy
Objective: This article reports on the reliability and validity of a new instrument called the Resource Generating Strategies (RGS) Scale, which was created to measure participation in the informal economy. Method: Researchers interviewed 285 adult women who had received domestic violence services, were currently incarcerated, or were residing in the community. Results: Five subtypes of informal economic activity are identified: (a) informal sell…
US systemic violence amid the Covid-19 disaster
The COVID-19 pandemic is a community and global health disaster marked not only by illness, death and trauma, but also by historically structured economic, social and cultural causes, conditions and consequences. COVID-19 reveals, perpetuates and produces structural violence and disaster capitalism. To introduce social workers to a new way of thinking about disasters, we offer a critical conceptual model depicting the historic and systemic progre…
Global Justice in the Time of Obama
Journal Article Global Justice in the Time of Obama: A Call to Organize Get access Loretta Pyles, PhD Loretta Pyles, PhD assistant professor and director School of Social Welfare, Community and Public Service Program, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, SS 112, Albany, NY 12222; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 55, …
Where's the “Freedom” in Free Trade? Framing Practices and Global Economic Justice
This study analyzes the work of three progressive organizations—the Highlander Center, American Friends Service Committee's Praxis/Economic Justice Project, and United Students Against Sweatshops. Drawing from social movement theory's framing perspective, I explore key components of the frames and framing practices of these organizations working on global economic justice issues. Special attention is paid to the role that popular education techni…
Economic Survival Strategies and Food Insecurity
This article reports on a study of 67 Hurricane Katrina survivors who were evacuated to one Texas community. The authors examine the economic survival strategies employed by Katrina evacuees to feed their families during the approximately one week time frame beginning the day before the storm and ending when they were ultimately evacuated from New Orleans. An analysis of their strategies and actions provides insight both into the nature of househ…
Spirituality
In this paper, the authors examine the meaning and role of spirituality in the lives of eight women of color, participating in a welfare-to-work program. Although largely ignored in social work practice in the context of welfare reform, these women indicate through in-depth interviews that spirituality is a vital source of resilience for them. They articulate their meaning of spirituality, spiritual practices, spiritual experiences with material …
Addressing the Problem of Domestic Violence
The social work profession has a complex and arguably problematic history in relation to the problem of domestic violence. Through a review of abstracts of social work articles published from 1985 to 2000, the authors sought to determine whether anything has changed since Davis’s (1987) seminal study regarding the way in which the profession addresses the problem of domestic violence. The findings indicate that although researchers have done a go…
Children's Schooling
This study is rooted in many mothers' experiences with their children's schooling and how they affect their ability to work in this era of welfare reform. Responding to problems identified by women participating in a welfare-to-work program, this paper explores the realities of children's schooling and its effects on their mothers' work from the perspectives of ten women of color. The study reveals that personal, interpersonal, and systemic facto…
Toward a Post-Katrina Framework
In this essay the author discusses the responses of social systems to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The events revealed a hidden poverty, racism and sexism exist in America. The author proposes making use of human rights and capabilities discourse as a way to frame such global social problems, social welfare policies and social work practice in a post-Katrina environment. Implications for social work policy, practice and education are offered
Economic Well-Being and Intimate Partner Violence
The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between intimatep artnerv iolence (IPV) and women's participationin the informal economy (both legal and illegal) and their impact on economic well-being. This research was part of a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) study that was concerned with women's survival of childhood and adult abuse. For the 285 women that were in this sample, there were positive, medium correlations between …
Measuring the Informal Economy
Objective: This article reports on the reliability and validity of a new instrument called the Resource Generating Strategies (RGS) Scale, which was created to measure participation in the informal economy. Method: Researchers interviewed 285 adult women who had received domestic violence services, were currently incarcerated, or were residing in the community. Results: Five subtypes of informal economic activity are identified: (a) informal sell…
Women of the Storm
Drawing from interviews with advocates that addressed disaster recovery issues after Hurricane Katrina, the authors highlight three groups of women—domestic violence/sexual assault workers, advocates of federal postdisaster policy, and members of public housing resident councils. Women's efforts to mobilize networks and resist unfair policies, particularly in the context of a disaster, are discussed
The Complexities of the Religious Response to Domestic Violence
Drawing on data from a study conducted in Wyoming about the community response to domestic violence, this article focuses on an unanticipated finding: how religion is paradoxically both a source of assistance and a barrier to women surviving domestic violence. The results indicate that although religious institutions are a resource for emotional comfort and provide practical assistance, they may also perpetuate silence. The article concludes that…
Community organizing for post-disaster social development
English Community revitalization is a neglected element in disaster recovery. The literature on disaster and community practice is reviewed and some community development and organizing endeavors in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are described. Social work's lack of emphasis on community organizing is a barrier to social development in post-disaster situations. French La revitalisation communautaire est un facteur né gligé dans la relè ve de…
Economic Survival Strategies and Food Insecurity
This article reports on a study of 67 Hurricane Katrina survivors who were evacuated to one Texas community. The authors examine the economic survival strategies employed by Katrina evacuees to feed their families during the approximately one week time frame beginning the day before the storm and ending when they were ultimately evacuated from New Orleans. An analysis of their strategies and actions provides insight both into the nature of househ…
The capabilities approach and violence against women
English The capabilities approach attends to the unique situation of poor women in the context of social development, as exemplified in such concepts as household inequality and bodily integrity. The article clarifies how being safe from physical and sexual assault is critical as a social development issue. French L'approche centrée sur les capacités s'intéresse aux situations mettant en cause les femmes en situation de pauvreté dans le contexte …
Community Revitalization in Post-Katrina New Orleans
This research explored the role of social capital, particularly civic engagement and social trust, in community revitalization efforts in a primarily African American post-Katrina neighborhood (n = 153). Findings reveal high levels of participation in neighborhood and political activities but low levels of social trust. Eighty-four percent of this primarily African American sample reported that they do not trust people of other races as compared …
Where's the “Freedom” in Free Trade? Framing Practices and Global Economic Justice
This study analyzes the work of three progressive organizations—the Highlander Center, American Friends Service Committee's Praxis/Economic Justice Project, and United Students Against Sweatshops. Drawing from social movement theory's framing perspective, I explore key components of the frames and framing practices of these organizations working on global economic justice issues. Special attention is paid to the role that popular education techni…
Work Experiences of Women Survivors
The study presented in this article applied the capabilities approach to the experiences of low-income women survivors of gender-based violence, who worked in the formal and informal economies. Nine women were interviewed about their work histories, alternative resource-generating strategies, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of work, and the impact of gender-based violence on their work lives. The authors vetted these experienc…
Global Justice in the Time of Obama
Journal Article Global Justice in the Time of Obama: A Call to Organize Get access Loretta Pyles, PhD Loretta Pyles, PhD assistant professor and director School of Social Welfare, Community and Public Service Program, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, SS 112, Albany, NY 12222; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 55, …
Spirituality and Faith-Based Interventions
Research has shown that spirituality and religion are important sources of resilience and coping in adversity such as disasters, particularly for African Americans. In addition, churches and faith-based service providers are key actors in disaster relief and recovery. After Hurricane Katrina, research on survivors has focused little on the role of spirituality and religion in their recovery. This case study illustrates that even without solicitin…
Deconstructing Neoliberal Community Development Approaches and a Case for the Solidarity Economy
The solidarity economy movement is a burgeoning global justice movement that focuses on economic justice, sustainability, and democratic processes. Social workers care about alleviating poverty, but they generally adhere to neoliberal strategies and ignore transformative approaches to economic justice such as solidarity economics. Recent neoliberal community-development efforts center on approaches such as asset development, human capital buildin…
The Dialectic Method
This paper introduces Hans-Georg Gadamer's dialectic method and elaborates upon its application to social work inquiry. Its strengths lie in its ability to uncover social constructed truths, to explain human behavior in a non-deterministic manner that emphasizes personal agency and empowerment, and to foster a consciousness-raising process that leads to praxis. This makes it ideally suited for knowledge gathering by practitioners in the field who…
Building Bridges to Safety and Justice
The authors offer three narratives of women survivors who are engaged in organizing around issues of gender-based violence. Common themes include experiences of the cycle of violence, a wide range of control tactics used by abusers, the difficulties of breaking free, economic injustice, the complexities that children bring to leaving, and multiple barriers in community and public services, particularly for low-income and immigrant women. The narr…
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements
In his meticulous empirical study of the role of play and creativity in social change work, Benjamin Shepard offers readers a unique scholarly analysis of these unsung dimensions of the usually wei
Participation and other ethical considerations in participatory action research in post-earthquake rural Haiti
This article offers reflections on work with rural peasant organizations in Haiti to build capacities to engage in participatory action research (PAR) and sustainable community recovery and development after the 12 January 2010 earthquake. Specifically, it is based on the perspectives of an engaged scholar who has conducted ongoing research and transnational recovery and development projects in collaboration with rural disaster survivors. Drawing…
Securitization, racial cleansing, and disaster capitalism
Through a critical discourse analysis of news media after the US Gulf Coast hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake disasters, we draw from Soss et al.’s (2011) ideas about US poverty governance – neoliberal paternalism – to identify how a similar phenomenon of ‘neoliberal disaster governance’ (NDG) operates in these contexts. NDG is a set of discourses, policies, and practices, we argue, which endeavors to control disaster survivors in order …
Decolonising Disaster Social Work
Human behaviour, particularly the neo-liberal economic system that values unlimited growth and unsustainable extraction of natural resources, is contributing to climate volatility and exacerbating disaster risk. As such, social workers are increasingly called to work in disaster settings across the globe and collaborate with many actors, such as faith-based humanitarian organisations. Unfortunately, disaster interventions may perpetuate the value…
Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti demonstrates how social processes impact disasters as they unfold, through the distribution of power and resources, the use of discourses …
Citizen participation in disaster recovery projects and programmes in rural communities
This study investigates predictors of local participation in recovery projects and programmes following Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005 and the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. Using two sets of survey data, it examines whether disaster impacts and social capital (social trust and civic engagement) are associated with disaster recovery participation and compares predictors of such engagement in the two locations. Multivariate logistic …
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