TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Conceptualizing disaster social capital: what it is, why it matters and how it can be enhanced
JO  - Disasters
A1  - Uekusa, Shinya
A1  - Matthewman, Steve
A1  - Lorenz, Daniel F.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Social capital discourse occupies an important place in disaster studies. Scholars have adopted various inflections of social capital to explain how those with greater social capital are generally more resilient to disasters and experience speedier recoveries. Disaster scholars have also discovered that people typically display altruistic tendencies in the wake of disasters and develop novel networks of mutual support - known as "communitas" which is also seen to built resilience and boost recovery. In this article, we use the work of Pierre Bourdieu to synthesize these literatures, conceptualizing communitas as "disaster social capital". We offer a fleshed-out definition of disaster social capital to distinguish it from regular social capital and discuss the barriers to, and enablers of, its formation. While primarily a conceptual discussion, we hope that it has practical and policy implications for disaster scholars and practitioners interested in inclusive disaster risk reduction as well as full and just recoveries. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0361-3666
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12470
ID  - ref1
ER  -