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Author Chamlee-Wright, Emily

Title The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery : Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics, 12
Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics, 12
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Understanding the sources of resilience; Part I: Theoretical frame and methodology; 1 The nature and causes of social order as seen through post-disaster recovery; 2 Qualitative methods and the pursuit of economic understanding; Part II: Deploying socially embedded resources in a post-disaster context; 3 Collective action in the wake of disaster: Social capital rebuilding strategies of early returnees
4 Social capital, community narratives, and recovery within a Vietnamese-American neighborhood5 Collective narratives and entrepreneurial discovery in St. Bernard Parish; 6 Negotiating structure and agency in the Ninth Ward: Sense of place and divine purpose in post-disaster recovery; Part III: Political-economy and social learning in non-priced environments; 7 The deleterious effects of signal noise in post-disaster recovery; 8 Expectations anchoring and the civil society vacuum: Lessons for public pol
Summary How do societies achieve a level of complexity, coordination, and social intelligence that far surpasses the capacity of individual human intelligence? This title addresses this question in the context of civil society generally, in which we cannot always rely on market prices to guide our way
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Subject Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
Disasters -- Social aspects -- Gulf States
Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Gulf States
Social learning -- Gulf States
Social learning.
Social aspects
Disaster relief -- Social aspects
Disasters -- Social aspects
Social learning
United States -- Gulf States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203855928
0203855922
128257003X
9781282570030