Hyperlocal Organizing

Jack L. Harris

doi:10.5771/9781666927245

Summary

Hyperlocal Organizing: Collaborating for Recovery Over Time explores the difficult work of post-disaster recovery. Jack L. Harris, demonstrates that after disaster, broad interorganizational landscapes are needed to unite the grassroots, neighborhoods, communities, and institutions to solve problems of recovery and bring people home. Yet all too often, government disaster policy and institutions ignore the critical role of local knowledge and organizing. Exploring the organizational landscape of the mid-Atlantic United States after Hurricane Sandy, Harris reveals how participation and collaboration open multiple pathways to recovery after disaster by building resilience and democratizing governance. Using powerful theories of communicating and organizing, this book develops a new framework—hyperlocal organizing—to address the challenge of community survivability in the twenty-first century. Achieving community survivability requires robust organizational partnerships and interorganizational collaboration to solve collective problems. The lessons Harris presents are important not just for post-disaster recovery, but for addressing grand challenges such as climate change, environmental justice, and equitable community development. Scholars of environmental communication, disaster studies, and emergency management, will find this book of particular interest.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2723-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2724-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 160
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Defining Disaster and Recovery No access
2. The Purpose and Layout of THIS Book No access
3. Notes No access
1. Processes of Organizing and Communication after Disaster No access
2. Organizing and Organizations No access
3. Notes No access
1. Shaping Organizational Landscapes through Public Policy: Empowering Community in Scotland No access
2. Understanding the Organizational Landscape of Disaster Recovery No access
3. FEMA’s 2022–2026 Strategic Plan: Rethinking Institutional Frameworks No access
4. The Institutional Messages of Federal Disaster Response No access
5. Implications of Current Federal Disaster Policy for Organizing No access
6. The Plural Sector and the Organizational Landscape of Disaster No access
7. Notes No access
1. Hyperlocal Organizing No access
2. Hyperlocal Organizing after 9/11: Institutional and Improvisational Response No access
3. Emergent Organizing and Long-Term Recovery after Disaster No access
4. Hyperlocal Organizing and the Changing Landscape of Disaster Recovery No access
5. How Does Hyperlocal Organizing Work? No access
6. Place, Communication, and Organizing No access
7. Notes No access
1. From Organizational Survivability to Community Survivability No access
2. Communicative Management and the Role of Community in Stakeholder Theory No access
3. Notes No access
1. Hyperlocal Organizing in the Aftermath of Disaster No access
2. Hyperlocal Organizing in Coastal New Jersey and Staten Island after Sandy No access
3. Notes No access
1. Hyperlocal Organizing and Social Resilience No access
2. Social Resilience and Democratic Governance No access
3. Notes No access
1. Theory Construction No access
2. Research Process and Sites No access
3. Reflexive Methodology and Multi-Methods Fieldwork No access
4. Bounding the Study No access
5. Data Collection No access
6. Coastal New Jersey Data Collection No access
7. Notes No access
1. Coding and Analysis No access
2. Network Analysis (Coastal New Jersey) No access
3. Survey Analysis No access
4. A Final Note on Findings and Multi-Methods, Reflexive Research No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
References No access Pages 133 - 148
Index No access Pages 149 - 158
About the Author No access Pages 159 - 160