Inequalities and interrelations
The sociology of disasters at a new crossroads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin T Smiley (0000-0003-1856-6590, Louisiana State University, corresponding author), Simone Justine Domínguez (0000-0003-0385-3941, University of Oklahoma), Akua L Lewis (Louisiana State University), Heath McNeese (Louisiana State University), Sara J Pellegrin (Louisiana State University), Harleen K Sandhu (0000-0001-6960-4345, Louisiana State University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.13008 |
| OpenAlex | W4285592921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 114 |
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
Economic growth · Economics · Field (mathematics · Inequality · Positive economics · Psychological resilience · Scholarship · Social capital · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Social Psychology
Relational Inequalities
Crisis Cities
Heat Wave
Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Disaster Vulnerability
Durable Inequality
Beyond Disasters
Governing Natural Disasters
Disaster Devastation in Poor Nations
Health Disparities in the U.S. Gulf Coast
Differential Vulnerabilities
Disaster, Disruption to Family Life, and Intimate Partner Violence
Urban Ecology in the Time of Climate Change
Growth Machine Up-links and the Manufacture of Flood Risk in Mid-twentieth Century New Orleans
Reproducing poverty and inequality in disaster
Using an intersectional approach to advance understanding of homeless persons’ vulnerability to disaster
Connecting urban and environmental catastrophe
There’s always winners and losers’
Who knows what comes tomorrow?” A study of resilience discourse, practice, and politics in a post-disaster field
Disasters and Social Inequalities
Gender, disaster, and women's access to contraception and reproductive health care
Disability and climate change
A Bridge to Challenging Environmental Inequality
Exacerbating Inequalities
Post-disaster reconstruction without citizens and their social capital in Llico, Chile
Compensation and Community Corrosion
Knowledge and Concern for Sea‐Level Rise in an Urban Environmental Justice Community
Social Policy, “Deservingness,” and Sociotemporal Marginalization
The Shelf Life of a Disaster
The Discourse of the Ecological Precariat
Water Policy And Governance Networks
Life after Hurricane Katrina
Social Vulnerability and Procedural Equity
Hurricane Andrew
Physical Health Symptoms and Hurricane Katrina
Exploring the Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Greater Houston, Texas
Attitudes Toward Mass Arrivals
Neighborhood Structure, Social Capital, and Community Resilience
Natural Hazards and Local Development
Natural Hazards and Residential Mobility
Everything in its Path
Places as Recovery Machines
A Tale of Two Cities
The Long-Term Recovery of New Orleans’ Population After Hurricane Katrina
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News
Response to Social Crisis and Disaster
Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
Mitigating Litigating
Weather-Related Hazards and Population Change
New York City as 'fortress of solitude' after Hurricane Sandy
Flooding and the 'new normal
Twelve years later
Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster
A Tale of Two American Cities
Deconstruction of destruction stories
Intersectional vulnerability in post-disaster contexts
Multi-scalar and multi-dimensional conceptions of social capital and mental health impacts after disaster
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Population Composition, Migration and Inequality
Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters? Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters
Rethinking the Nature of Disaster
Underwater
Risk and Recreancy
Stress and Physical Health Deterioration in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Pushed Out on My Own
Neoliberal disasters and racialisation
From the Margins to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads
We Need to Do Something About This
Damages Done
After the Meltdown
Climate Change and Migration
Race in California's Prison Fire Camps for Men
Community Perceptions of Industrial Risks Before and After a Toxic Flood
The experiential gap in disaster research
Governing disaster
Does time heal all wounds? Community attachment, natural resource employment, and health impacts in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster
The burdens of social capital
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |