1st Edition
The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery Social Learning in a post-disaster environment
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 Neighborhood 5. 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 Policy 9. Concluding Remarks Part IV: Appendices Appendix A: Demographic Summaries of Research Subjects in Neighborhoods of Interest Appendix B: Sample Interview Guide Appendix C: Primary and Secondary Theme Codes
Biography
Chamlee-Wright, Emily
'Emily Chamlee Wright has made a major contribution to understanding the response to Hurricane Katrina. Her book is a case study of the importance of spontaneously-evolved institutions in solving post-disaster collective action problems. She shows that micro social networks are often more important for recovery than large government programs.'
- Mario J. Rizzo, New York University, USA
'In her pioneering work Chamlee-Wright has used a natural experiment in governmental failure to show that an economy is more than a machine to be run by our masters. It is a social order, "embedded," as the sociologists say, in ethics. She shows that such fully human actors are creative, as a Samuelsonian Max U-er is not. We are all entrepreneurs, big or small. The fact requires an empirical yet Austrian economics, of which Chamlee-Wright's book is a sterling example'.
- Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
'F. A. Hayek famously eschewed the term economy for its constructivist connotations. Emily Chamlee-Wright profitably reclaims it, recasting economy as a plurality of self-organizing processes, civic and cultural as well as commercial. As a work of theory and as an ethnographic investigation of post-Katrina recovery, Chamlee-Wright’s book is a bold act of intellectual entrepreneurship – signaling the explanatory possibilities of a scientifically serious hermeneutic economics.'
- Robert Garnett, Texas Christian University, USA.
