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Conceptualizing Vulnerability: The Impact, Meaning and Human Response to Social Catastrophe

Byars, Lise Elsu

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Anthropology.
I determine how households and communities respond to vulnerabilities highlighted by catastrophe by employing a study of data from a social catastrophe. I explore the causal relationships of the 2006 Oaxacan Teacher-Strikes and resulting APPO-government standoff and rural central valley communities considering received economic support, patterns of migration, loss of work, and perceived impact to consider household and community ability to cope and recover from vulnerability. Using a political ecology framework I find that vulnerability to political strife is dependent upon the connection to Oaxaca City and that the strategies of coping and recovery are varied between households and communities. Marginality of communities and households coupled with the level of integration into Oaxaca City’s social structure are keys to understanding household and community vulnerability to the teacher strikes. The goal of my research is to identify how human populations adapt to disastrous circumstances.
Jeffrey Cohen, PhD (Advisor)
Mark Moritz, PhD (Committee Member)
Dorothy Noyes, PhD (Committee Member)
68 p.

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  • Byars, L. E. (2009). Conceptualizing Vulnerability: The Impact, Meaning and Human Response to Social Catastrophe [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1242235185

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Byars, Lise. Conceptualizing Vulnerability: The Impact, Meaning and Human Response to Social Catastrophe. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1242235185.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Byars, Lise. "Conceptualizing Vulnerability: The Impact, Meaning and Human Response to Social Catastrophe." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1242235185

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)