Disaster Citizenship : Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era

Name: Disaster Citizenship
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252081378
Price: 4850 KES
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ISBN: 9780252081378

by Jacob A.C. Remes

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0252081374

ISBN-13 9780252081378

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 14th, 2015

Print length 304 Pages

Weight 460 grams

Dimensions 15.80 x 23.80 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: United States of America, USA 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 History of the Americas 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)Social impact of disasters Politics & government Politics and government Industrial relations, health & safety Industrial relations, occupational health and safety History History of the Americas

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A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era–beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the aftermath of two disasters in the United States–Canada borderlands--the Salem Fire of 1914 and the Halifax Explosion of 1917--saw working class survivors instead turn to friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members for succor and aid. Both official and unofficial responses, meanwhile, showed how the United States and Canada were linked by experts, workers, and money.

In Disaster Citizenship, Jacob A. C. Remes draws on histories of the Salem and Halifax events to explore the institutions--both formal and informal--that ordinary people relied upon in times of crisis. He explores patterns and traditions of self-help, informal order, and solidarity and details how people adapted these traditions when necessary. Yet, as he shows, these methods--though often quick and effective--remained illegible to reformers. Indeed, soldiers, social workers, and reformers wielding extraordinary emergency powers challenged these grassroots practices to impose progressive "solutions" on what they wrongly imagined to be a fractured social landscape.

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