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100 _aCarrero, Rocio
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245 _aTacit networks, crucial care : Informal networks and disaster response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake
260 _bSage
_c2019
300 _aVol 56, Issue 3, 2019 : (561-577 p.)
520 _aIt is often reiterated that a better understanding of local networks and needs is key to risk reduction. Nevertheless, the crucial role of informal social networks and actors in the catering for human needs in disaster circumstances remains largely under-explored. If we have to rethink the ‘work’ that informality does for our understanding of urban areas, its contribution to resilience, and take it seriously in the ‘full spectrum of risk’ in urban and peri-urban centres, better and more balanced methods are needed. This paper attends to this gap. Examining the mechanisms of aid provision in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal, it details an experimental set of quantitative research methods to explore the role of informal social networks in the provision of critical human needs in natural disasters. Relying on a sample of 160 households across four districts and 16 villages in the built environment affected by the Gorkha earthquake, the paper reveals that, overall, a wide disparity exists in the comparative importance of organisations in the provision of aid and resources. Much crucial after-disaster care is catered for by a mix of relatives, temples, friends, neighbours and local clubs. It highlights the importance of informal networks in understanding, and theorising, governance (of disaster and of the ‘urban’ more in general), and calls for greater attention to its role. It is time, it argues, to revalue informal disaster governance networks as a crucial, not tacit, component of disaster response.
650 _acommunity
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650 _anetworks
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650 _ainformality
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650 _agovernance
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650 _adisasters
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700 _aAcuto, Michele
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700 _aTzachor, Asaf
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_dsage, 2019.
_tUrban studies
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018810606
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