Dealing with Background Inequality in Post-Disaster Participatory Spaces
2021 (English)In: Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy, ISSN 0034-4893, E-ISSN 1749-4001, Vol. 57, no 2, p. 193-208Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article focuses on mechanisms to handle inequality among participants in claimed participatory spaces. An ethnographic study of the Occupy Sandy network after Hurricane Sandy in New York City shows how activists worked with socio-economically marginalised communities with the aim of empowering them. Yet, the compensatory mechanisms put in place to counteract inequality brought about three problems of differentiation. These were: variation in individual agency, the difficulty of intersectional positions and situated marginalisation beyond commonly acknowledged identity markers.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. Vol. 57, no 2, p. 193-208
Keywords [en]
participatory democracy, social inequality: post-disaster processes, Occupy Sandy, hurricane Sandy
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9142DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1754891OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-9142DiVA, id: diva2:1431017
2020-05-182020-05-182021-08-10Bibliographically approved