Emergency Preparedness Through Community Cohesion: An Integral Approach to Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781138327887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 202 str.

Jean Parker

Opis

This book explores the process of transforming emergency preparedness education through community media in rural North India and applies it globally. A new theoretical framework is presented, combining the Integral Worlds Approach with Critical Theory, thus exploring a new way to implement social change, leading to social transformation.

Spis treści

1. Constructing resilience: from preparing for emergencies to community economic sustainability PART I My inner and outer call: the subjective calling and the objective challenge 2. An unlikely story: my subjective inner calling and burning desire 3. Defining the objective problem – disasters: a challenge for India, humanity and the planet PART II Exploring the context – introducing Uttarakhand 4. The context: exploring Uttarakhand: "The Land of the Gods" PART III Co-creating for resilience: transformation through participatory research 5. Co-creating together: gaining knowledge through telling stories 6. What goes wrong and what goes right: correcting the impediments to community cohesion and resilience and analyzing imbalances in theory and practice in India and beyond 7. How the research was done: refl ections and new applications PART IV Contributing to transformation: from learning about emergencies to developing constructive resilience 8. Transformational innovation: the contribution of the Uttarakhand research to community resilience 9. From theory to action: creating constructive resilience through reawakening community consciousness 10. Implementing constructive resilience: co-creating community prosperity

O autorze

Jean Parker, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at Trans4m Center for Integral Development and teaches economic justice and nonprofit management at Regis University and Wilmette Institute, USA. Her previous publications include Learning, Discovering, and Moving Forward: An Integral Approach to Creating "Safer Communities" through Community Radio in India's Villages (2016).