Post-disaster solidarity communities can reproduce existing structural inequality

Evidence

In a nuanced review of the relevant evidence, Kaniasty and Norris (1999) point out that these “post disaster democracies” do not occur in all disasters, and, where they do occur, the disaster community does not distribute aid equally, with structural differences in advantage often being reproduced and even exacerbated. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 45

Categorization

• QUESTION: This caveat complicates the clean claim that mutual aid dissolves hierarchies — worth chasing how inequality conditions when an inclusive community forms.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in when emergent solidarity fails or excludes, qualifying the positive-project mechanism. — connects to: Metropolitan disasters produce only fleeting cross-difference solidarity before turn to blame — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 963; Social capital both retains residents and can worsen discrimination after disasters — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 13; Disaster solidarity does not erase existing inequality and often reproduces it. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 45 (+3 more)

Related

• Disaster solidarity does not erase existing inequality and often reproduces it. (similarity 0.93)
• Metropolitan disasters produce only fleeting cross-difference solidarity before turn to blame (similarity 0.86)
• Unequal disaster treatment by authorities re-marginalizes minority residents and dissolves unity (similarity 0.83)
• Social capital both retains residents and can worsen discrimination after disasters (similarity 0.83)
• Outcome inequality between disasters is written before hazards strike (similarity 0.83)
• Local disasters fall predictably on the least privileged and most depleted (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Disaster solidarity does not erase existing inequality and often reproduces it. #corroborates (1.00) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 45
• Unequal disaster treatment by authorities re-marginalizes minority residents and dissolves unity #expands (0.90) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 35
• Social capital both retains residents and can worsen discrimination after disasters #corroborates (0.80) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 13
• Metropolitan disasters produce only fleeting cross-difference solidarity before turn to blame #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 963