Part Three: Community Resilience in the Face of Natural and Manmade Disasters

Community Resilience in the Face of Natural and Manmade Disasters: Stories from the Field and the Role of Social Scientists (Risk & Disaster TIG) 

 

CHAIRS: WILLIS, David Blake, LONG, Tracy, STREET, Colette, and MURPHY, Dawn (Fielding Grad U) 

 

LONG, Tracy (Fielding Grad U) Out of the Ashes: Community Resiliency in the Aftermath of Natural Disaster 

 

WILLIS, David Blake (Fielding Grad U) The Worker’s Home: Gandhians Leading the Way in Grass-Roots Organizing 

 

MURPHY, Dawn (Fielding Grad U) and EIBEN, Vicky (Viterbo U) “All People and Generations Welcome”: Folk Schools and the Discovery of Community in Turbulent Yet Hopeful Times 

 

STREET, Colette (Fielding Grad U) Embodying Emotion and Change through Plutchick’s Circumplex Model and Greco Roman Myth 

 

DISCUSSANT: HO, Christine (Fielding Grad U)

 

Community Resilience in the Face of Natural and Manmade Disasters: Stories from the Field and the Role of Social Scientists. The increasing number and intensity of natural and manmade disasters have created challenges to the sustainability of local communities across the globe. The record number of climate disasters recently, as well as critical manmade disasters in communities far and wide, have resulted in widespread tragedy, but these events have also produced substantial learning opportunities and the emergence of positive community adaptations. This collection of papers and reflections examines recent stories of community resilience in the face of devastating climate and manmade events and questions the role of social scientists in understanding recovery experiences and developing adaptation strategies for the future.

 

Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.