Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters: Occupy Sandy in Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy, USA

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Shaking Things Loose
	Meeting Occupy Sandy in Rockaway
	Shaking Things Loose – Disasters as Windows of Social and Political Change
	Barking Up the Wrong Tree – Crisis Management’s Inability to Fix Social Vulnerability
	What Does Occupy Sandy in Rockaway Bring to the Table?
	Mixing It Up – Living and Breathing the Field
	Outline of the Book
	References
2 Most Affected, Least Heard
	Most Affected…
	…and Least Heard
	Conclusion
	References
3 Ain’t No Power Like the Power of the People
	Post-disaster Empowerment Processes
	Emergent Groups in Post-Disaster Settings
	Inside Out Or Outside In: A Puzzle of Empowerment
	Conclusion
	References
4 Tales of a Peninsula Shattered and Divided
	A Peninsula Shattered
	Rockaway: From Summer Resort to a Place of Socioeconomic Marginalization
	A Peninsula Divided
	Conclusion
	References
5 Paths of Empowerment in Disaster Relief
	Cut From the Same Cloth: Occupy Sandy as Part of the Wider Occupy Movement
	A Sister Is Born: Occupy Sandy Emerges
	“You Are Not the Protagonist of This Story”
	Inclusion, Autonomy, and Horizontality
		Everyone Is In: Empowerment Through Inclusion
		Everything Is Good: Empowerment Through Autonomy
		Everyone Is a Leader: Empowerment Through Horizontality
	Conclusion
	References
6 Paths of Post-Disaster (Dis-)Empowerment
	Relief Turns to Long-Term Recovery
	Empowerment Through Participating, Organizing, and Learning
		“There Were Pieces of the Puzzle That Weren’t Written in the Books”
	Disempowerment Through Misrepresented Subject Positions
	Disempowerment Through Lack of Transparency
		Organic Organizational Identity and Financial Question Marks
		Hidden Agendas
	Disempowerment Through Silenced Resistance
		“We’re Feeling Pretty Empowered Already”
	Conclusion
	References
7 Saviors Trapped in Disaster (Dis-)Empowerment
	A Summary of Sorts
	The Savior Trap
		The Intersectional Trap
		The Resistance Trap
		The Situated Marginalization Trap
	A Trapped Disaster Scholar
	References
Index