John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis — A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE IN EMERGENT GROUPS

13 published claims from this book.

• An ambiguous, unconcretized threat fragments rather than unites a crowd.
• Calling communities ‘resilient’ can let authorities evade their support duties
• Collective resilience theory now yields practical guidance for disaster practitioners.
• Existing friendship and family bonds shape cooperative evacuation behavior.
• Expecting support from fellow survivors enables coordinated collective action.
• Flood survivors’ shared identity predicts their well-being through expected support months later
• London bomb survivors formed solidarity with strangers within minutes of the blast.
• Pre-disaster social bonds cannot explain solidarity among strangers during crises.
• Resilience is an emergent group process, not a pre-existing personality trait.
• Shared social identity is the causal variable predicting solidarity among disaster strangers.
• Social capital both retains residents and can worsen discrimination after disasters
• The solidarity model extends beyond disasters to political violence and repression.
• Unequal disaster treatment by authorities re-marginalizes minority residents and dissolves unity