Pathways through Crisis : Urban Risk and Public Culture

Name: Pathways through Crisis
Brand: AltaMira Press
SKU: 9780759111325
Price: 19800 KES
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ISBN: 9780759111325

by Carl A. Maida

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0759111324

ISBN-13 9780759111325

Publisher AltaMira Press

Imprint AltaMira Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 16th, 2008

Print length 280 Pages

Weight 565 grams

Dimensions 23.90 x 16.10 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Urban communities / city life Urban communities Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints Urban & municipal planning Urban and municipal planning and policy

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In Pathways through Crisis, Carl Maida describes how communities tend (and need) to develop "grass roots" solutions in responding to critical social problems.

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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