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The Recovery Myth

The Plans and Situated Realities of Post-Disaster Response

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Lucy Easthope

    1. Recovery adviser and researcher, Doncaster, United Kingdom

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  • Provides an innovative re-examination of the ‘recovery’ phase of a disaster
  • Analyses the difference between post-disaster planning and realities experienced by communities
  • Studies the relationships between these communities and emergency responders

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lucy Easthope
    Pages 1-26

  3. Technologies of Recovery and Their Role in the Recovery Myth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. In Pursuit of the Plan: Ordering Devices in Disaster

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 29-60

    3. Flood Tales and Fantasy Documents

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 61-102

    4. Value, Waste and the ‘Furniture of Self’

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 103-138

  4. Plans and Situated Realities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-140
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    2. Re-imagining Technologies of Recovery

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 141-163

    3. Lifescapes in Recovery

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 165-199

    4. Co-production of ‘Afterwards’: Survivance in Toll Bar

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 201-228

  5. Reflections on the Recovery Myths

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Recovering

      • Lucy Easthope
      Pages 231-250

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 251-272
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About this book

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the ‘recovery’ phase of a disaster by one of the UK’s most experienced disaster management specialists. Drawing on two decades’ of work, the book develops an ethnography of the residents and responders in one flooded village and applies this to other cases of UK flooding, as well as to post-disaster recovery in New Zealand. The book shows how localised emergency responders find ways to collaborate with residents, and how an informal network uses nationally generated instruments differently to co-produce regeneration within a community. The book considers the plethora of government instruments which have been produced to affect recovery, including checklists, templates and guidance documents, and discusses approaches to community resilience and recovery risk management. The book appeals to students and scholars of Government and Public Policy, Disaster and Emergency Management, Community Resilience, Law, Sociology and Geography.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Recovery adviser and researcher, Doncaster, United Kingdom

    Lucy Easthope

About the author

Lucy Easthope is Deputy Director of Research, Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, UK, Senior Fellow of the Emergency Planning College and Research Affiliate at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research.

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