Ebook: Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital : A Study of the 500-Year Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Author: Kevin F. Adler
- Tags: Social capital (Sociology), Floods -- Iowa.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: UPA
- City: Blue Ridge Summit, United States
- Language: English
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Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital examines the vastly under-explored link between natural disasters and social capital in regards to the unprecedented June 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In-depth qualitative interviews with flood victims and key informants in Cedar Rapids reveal that a resident’s perception of social capital after a natural disaster is shaped by their vulnerabilities and social mobility, which vary substantially and need to be understood contextually. This book, in highlighting the enormous impact of one disaster in a mid-sized Midwestern city, offers a framework for a new theory for why social capital shifts in societies from one generation to another: the transformative impact of shared traumas.
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