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Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture

Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture

Maida, Carl A.

Hardcover

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0759111324
ISBN13: 9780759111325
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: Dec 16 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems. Carl Maida argues that solutions to these problems tend to be developed within the affected communities themselves. In Pathways through Crisis, he draws on his two decades of work in ethnography and with crisis centers in the Los Angeles area to study the kinds of informal organizations that arise at the grass-roots level in order to deal with severe crises. This ground-breaking examination of responses to urban disaster suggests how both informal and formal organizations can be developed to serve people under extreme duress.

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