Hyperlocal Organizing

Collaborating for Recovery Over Time

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Jack L. Harris

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Hyperlocal Organizing: Collaborating for Recovery Over Time explores the difficult work of post-disaster recovery. Jack L. Harris, demonstrates that after disaster, broad interorganizational landscapes are needed to unite the grassroots, neighborhoods, communities, and institutions to solve problems of recovery and bring people home. Yet all too often, government disaster policy and institutions ignore the critical role of local knowledge and organizing. Exploring the organizational landscape of the mid-Atlantic United States after Hurricane Sandy, Harris reveals how participation and collaboration open multiple pathways to recovery after disaster by building resilience and democratizing governance. Using powerful theories of communicating and organizing, this book develops a new framework—hyperlocal organizing—to address the challenge of community survivability in the twenty-first century. Achieving community survivability requires robust organizational partnerships and interorganizational collaboration to solve collective problems. The lessons Harris presents are important not just for post-disaster recovery, but for addressing grand challenges such as climate change, environmental justice, and equitable community development. Scholars of environmental communication, disaster studies, and emergency management, will find this book of particular interest.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-21
Mått160 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEnvironmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Antal sidor172
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666927238

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Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Perpetual Disaster Response and Recovery: the New Normal?Chapter 1: Communicating and Organizing after Disaster Chapter 2: How Public Policy Shapes the Organizational Landscape of Disaster RecoveryChapter 3: Writing Community Back into Disaster Recovery: Hyperlocal Organizing and Interorganizational RelationshipsChapter 4: Using Stakeholder Theory to Build Theories of Hyperlocal Organizing Chapter 5: Hyperlocal Organizing after Hurricane Sandy: The View from Coastal New Jersey and Staten Island New YorkChapter 6: Empowering Community through Hyperlocal Organizing: Implications for Social Resilience and Democratic GovernanceAppendix AAppendix BReferencesAbout the Author

After a disaster strikes, what happens once the rescue helicopters and cameras go away? In Hyperlocal Organizing, Harris offers an answer that is part cautionary tale and part template for academics and communities. Using research on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and drawing on examples from other disasters (e.g., September 11 and Hurricanes Katrina, Maria, and Harvey), Harris examines the overlooked details when “response morphs into recovery.” In his analysis, the picture that emerges is how the Federal Emergency Management Administration, the Red Cross, and other established organizations come like bureaucratic hurricanes into affected communities. Generally, “top tier” organizations—though with some exceptions—have historically overlooked spontaneous volunteers, grassroots recovery efforts, and local organizations. The heart and soul of this book is the notion that recovery from crisis and disaster takes place at the grassroots, neighborhood, and community levels. As the United States and other countries continue to experience frequent, intense weather disasters, this book should serve as a guide on how to better integrate the top-tier responders more effectively with grassroots organizations, and also how to prepare communities for the most common scenarios they will face after the cameras leave: isolation and abandonment. Recommended. All readership levels.