The Center for Values and Social Policy presents a panel event on
Vulnerability and Disaster Response
Tuesday, Sept. 19th
EDUC 220
6:00 鈥 7:30 p.m.
How can disaster response effectively address vulnerable populations, those 鈥渓eft behind鈥 by inequalities in race, class, gender, and bodily impairment?聽 How should the state take such inequalities into account in disaster policy 鈥 and how can citizen groups affected by disaster effectively negotiate these inequalities to pursue a unified goal?聽 Drawing on fieldwork-based case studies and ethical theory, panelists will examine how disaster response is inflected by vulnerability 鈥 and how it could be improved.
Featured Speakers
Lori Peek (Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado; Director, Natural Hazards Center)
鈥淭he Next Big One: Vulnerable Populations and Rapid Reconnaissance Research鈥
聽Emmanuel David (Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado)
鈥淏ridgework: Emergent Civic Action in Disaster Response"
聽Elizabeth Brake (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University)
鈥淒isaster, Vulnerability, and Equal Opportunity: The State's Role in Response"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Women and Gender Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Natural Hazards Center