Sociology of disasters

L Peek, T Wachtendorf, MA Meyer - Handbook of environmental sociology, 2021 - Springer
This chapter focuses on the contributions of sociologists who study the root causes and
social consequences of everyday emergencies, disasters, and large-scale catastrophes. It …

Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, pride, and ambivalence in civil society responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in the USA

B Leap, MC Stalp, K Kelly - Antipode, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute
to this debate by utilising data from 662 self‐administered questionnaires and 78 semi …

Choreographing social reproduction: Making personal protective equipment and gender during a neoliberal pandemic

B Leap, K Kelly, MC Stalp - Gender, Work & Organization, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Feminist scholars explore the gendered aspects of social reproduction within neoliberal
contexts where the responsibility for reproducing daily and intergenerational life is shifted …

[PDF][PDF] Building spiritual fortitude and resilience following disaster: Synthesizing the contributions of positive psychology and religion/spirituality

LE Captari, L Shannonhouse, JD Aten… - Handbook of Positive …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Both environmental (eg, severe weather) and human-caused (eg, mass violence) disasters
often result in cascading devastation. Losses can include the death of loved ones, no longer …

'This was like some Little House on the Prairie shit': The intensive care(work) of making PPE during COVID-19

M Stalp, B Leap, K Kelly - Journal of Leisure Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In March 2020 during the first wave of COVID-19 in the United States, the national supply
and distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) was dangerously underwhelming …

He Does (Not) Care: COVID-19 Volunteers' Assessments of Donald Trump's Responses to the Pandemic

B Leap, MC Stalp, K Kelly - Social Currents, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
How right-wing populist politicians do gender has gained increasing attention. Far less
consideration has been granted to how citizens assess such politicians' genders. Using 78 …

Paved with good intentions: A social construction approach to alignment in disaster donations

MM Nelan, S Penta… - International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Following disasters, materiel convergence (the influx of materiel donations) can cause
extreme negative impacts; it has been described as a “second disaster”. Non-priority goods …

Gönüllü arama kurtarma ekiplerinin orman yangınlarındaki tahliye deneyimleri: 2021 Akdeniz orman yangınları

MS Köçer, R Aslan - Afet ve Risk Dergisi, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
Tüm dünyada küresel iklim değişikliğinin de etkisiyle, sıklığı ve büyüklüğü artan orman
yangınları her geçen gün daha fazla insan için risk oluşturmaktadır. Özellikle Türkiye …

Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

B Leap, K Kelly, MC Stalp - Sociology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The gendered features of adults' attributions of heroism to themselves and others has
received substantially less scholarly attention than the gendered dynamics of media …

Prologue: the sociology of disaster-a US perspective on the transformational conceptualization embedded in a discipline

T Wachtendorf - Defining Disaster, 2022 - elgaronline.com
Not unlike the role origin stories play in providing both backstory and greater understanding
of characters in works of fiction, origin stories of scholarly fields can offer insight into the …