Disaster vulnerability in anthropological perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2289682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A J Faas (0000-0002-8758-5624, San Jose State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-27 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Anthropological Practice (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-957X • E-ISSN: 2153-9588 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/napa.12084 |
| OpenAlex | W2544293211 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 50 |
| References cited | 38 |
In the study of disasters, the concept of vulnerability has been primarily employed as a cumulative indicator of the unequal distributions of certain populations in proximity to environmental and technological hazards and an individual or group ability to "anticipate, cope with, resist and recover" from disaster (Wisner et al. 2004). This concept has influenced disaster research as a means to question how natural, temporary, and random disasters are and focused analysis on the human-environmental processes that produce disasters and subject some populations more than others to risk and hazards. Critics also point out that vulnerability frameworks elude measure, strip people of agency, and reify stereotypes of the Global South. In light of both the historical importance and the sustained critiques of the concept, this chapter looks to anthropological and related literature to explore several questions: is it possible that vulnerability has outlived its usefulness? Is it still analytically meaningful for anthropologists currently working in the area of risk, hazards, and disasters? And what are the potential consequences or benefits that could come with conveying the concept of vulnerability to policy and decision makers
Agency (philosophy · Computer security · Disaster risk reduction · Emergency management · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural disaster · Natural hazard · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Vulnerability · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability assessment · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
L’ignorance comme source de vulnérabilités
Multiple jeopardies, intersectional vulnerabilities
Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes
Exclusion as a Defining Feature of Post-Disaster Recovery
Disaster-Related Food Security and Past General Governance Strategies in a Worldwide Sample
Es la vulnerabilidad un concepto anticuado? Después de las materias y el espacio
Why did so many women die in the 2004 Aceh Tsunami? Child survivor accounts of the disaster
“We are feeling older than our age”
Understanding climate vulnerability and efficacy of cooling centers in urban “slum” housing neighborhoods
Anatomy of disaster recoveries
Wounded attachments to disaster recovery
Co-producing disaster-resilient urban settlements in Ghana
How humanitarian assistance practices exacerbate vulnerability
Unpacking the progression of climate uncertainty into precarity in the urban context of drylands
Procedural Vulnerability and Its Effects on Equitable Post-Disaster Recovery in Low-Income Communities
Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco
Post‐disaster deterritorialisation and ‘roof‐centred’ recovery
Vulnerable homes on the move
Struggling for home where home is not meant to be
“All we need is a home”
At the Crossroads of Flood Mitigation and Urban Revitalization
Habitar territorios en riesgo
Anywhere but Here
Resilience
Mythopolitics of “community”
Interruptions
Small Island Risks
Trends in recovery aid concentration following Hurricane Florence in North Carolina
Krʊəh
Gender Roles and Coping Strategies Among Adult Male Victims and Survivors of the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye
A Desirable Place to Live
Navigating multidimensional household recoveries following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes
Unfolding the Spatial Inequality of Neighborhood-Level Social Vulnerability to Flood Hazards During Urbanization in China
Contemporary evacuation responses in a Northern Saskatchewan Cree community
The Psycho-Anthropological Perspectives of Natural Hazards
Tecnopolíticas de las vulnerabilidades y generación de desastres y crisis
De la vulnérabilité au risque de catastrophes à l’adaptation au changement climatique
Techno-politiques des vulnérabilités et production des catastrophes et des crises
La vulnérabilité est une question
Techno-politics of vulnerabilities and the production of disasters and crises
Social production of disasters and disaster social constructs
Humanitarianism
Adaptation privilege and Voluntary Buyouts
Patient passports and vulnerability
From state commodification to local reproduction of vulnerability
When Diverse Norms Meet Weak Plans
Entre hydroélectricité, érosion et loisir
Is Vulnerability an Outdated Concept? After Subjects and Spaces
Toward a phenomenology of politics
Any volunteers? Climate change, declining volunteerism, and disaster (un)preparedness in Southern New England
Vulnerability as Concept, Model, Metric, and Tool
Illustrating the coupled human–environment system for vulnerability analysis
A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
Resources, values, and development
Anthropology and Climate Change
Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti
Regions of Risk
Natural Disaster Hotspots
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
The Biopolitics of Disaster
“But I Know It’s True”
Disaster Capitalism to the Rescue
Risk Perception Shadows
Gendered Access to Formal and Informal Resources in Postdisaster Development in the Ecuadorian Andes
Procedural vulnerability
Procedural Vulnerability and Institutional Capacity Deficits in Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction
Political ecology
Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places
Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
Vulnerability
Cross-Cultural and Site-Based Influences on Demographic, Well-being, and Social Network Predictors of Risk Perception in Hazard and Disaster Settings in Ecuador and Mexico
Constructing Vulnerability
Rendering the World Unsafe
Community Resilience and Volcano Hazard
Encountering Development
Distinguished Lecture
Beyond the suffering subject
| Unique citing works | 50 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |