Metropolitan disasters produce only fleeting cross-difference solidarity before turn to blame

Evidence

In times of metropolitan crisis, chaos, and tragedy – New York immediately post-9/11, Bali following the nightclub bombing, Sumatra in the wake of the tsunami, the Madrid subway bombings in 2004, the London tube and bus bombings in 2005, followed by Sharm-el-Sheikh shortly after – civility and solidarity take hold at least temporarily, fueled by and reinforcing a fleeting humanity, the shared social tragedy drawing us momentarily into a commonality across difference. But the civility and commonality all too often give way quite quickly to a cynical politics of finger-pointing, threats, dismissal, and violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 963

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Disaster solidarity does not erase existing inequality and often reproduces it. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 45; Unequal disaster treatment by authorities re-marginalizes minority residents and dissolves unity — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 35; Post-disaster solidarity communities can reproduce existing structural inequality — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 45 (+1 more)