Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality by Medwinter, Sancha Doxilly
Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality by Medwinter, Sancha Doxilly

Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality

With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse,...
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Author: Sancha Doxilly Medwinter
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Language: English
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Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality by Medwinter, Sancha Doxilly

Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality

$101.75
Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality by Medwinter, Sancha Doxilly

Ecologies of Inequity: How Disaster Response Reconstitutes Race and Class Inequality

$101.75
Author: Sancha Doxilly Medwinter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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With Ecologies of Inequity, Sancha Doxilly Medwinter tells the story of how the racially and ethnically diverse, immigrant, and urban poor disaster survivors lose ground to their White, middleclass-to-affluent and Black middle-class homeowner neighbors during official disaster response. Medwinter presents analyses from 120 conversational and expert interviews with disaster responders and survivors in New York City, beginning as early as twelve days after the November 2012 landfall of Superstorm Sandy. The settings are Carnarsie, Brooklyn, and the Rockaway peninsula, which experienced six to eight feet of flooding.

The color- and class-blind assumptions of disaster responders and the labyrinthine process of obtaining a FEMA grant combine to exclude and increase the psychological burden of urban poor disaster survivors. Similarly, the locational decisions and volunteer service perimeters uncritically replicate the segregation logics of urban spaces. Part of this story explains how the chronically poor repeatedly get displaced by the machinery of official disaster response. One reason is the introduction of a race- and class-blind disaster "logic of response" that caters to the needs of the newly created class of "disaster victims," while displacing the "logic of service," which typically attempts to address the needs of the chronically poor.

Author: Sancha Doxilly Medwinter
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780820363806

About the Author
SANCHA DOXILLY MEDWINTER is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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