Participatory exclusion Cyclone Sidr and its aftermath
Bangladesh was devastated by Cyclone Sidr in November 2007
Abstract
This paper explores the political economy of post-Sidr interventions from an ethnographic account. The paper establishes links between power networks and access to resources in the study area, finding that marginality is a production of ongoing disaster interventions which favour the relatively well-off over the structurally poor. Ultimately, humanitarian assistance channels resources through established power networks, thus reinforcing them and producing uneven resilience among different social strata. This paper offers important insights for redesigning the distribution of humanitarian assistance.
Citation
M. Nadiruzzaman, D. Wrathall. Participatory exclusion – Cyclone Sidr and its aftermath. Geoforum, Volume 64, 2015, Pages 196-204, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.026.