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The Production of Rights in Disasters in Uttar Pradesh, India

其他書名	Implications for Theory and Practice
出版	Northumbria University, 2011
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wL-rAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Despite a shift in the practice of international NGOs to a rights-based approach to disastersthere is a dearth of substantial theoretical reflections on this linkage within academia. Given this knowledge gap, this research studies the linkages between disaster and rightsusing the case study of Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, India. The main contribution that this thesis makes to new knowledge is that of deepening theunderstanding of the way in which rights are produced in disasters. The thesis proposes atheoretical framework to enable such a critical assessment. The main assertion of thetheoretical framework is that the social vulnerability approach to disasters can reducevulnerability and promote social resilience only through a critical assessment of rights thatincludes subaltern constructs of rights and moral economy structures, their critique orcollusion with the governmental framing and institutionalization of rights. The thesisgrounds this claim made in the theoretical framework through its empirical chapters. Thethesis has four empirical chapters; the first inquires into the colonial history of moderndisaster rights; the second interrogates disaster rights in post-colonial India; the thirdanalyses the implications of a subaltern perspective of rights for disaster risk reductionstrategy; and the fourth analyses social change processes through the contestation of rights, partly attributed to the disaster. The concluding chapter of the thesis makesrecommendations for a rights based social vulnerability analysis and for action in disastersin Uttar Pradesh, India. These recommendations can act as new directions for rights baseddisaster risk reduction and recovery work. The thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate this subject area. In particular, it uses disaster theory, human rights and political theory, subaltern theory and feministtheory. The thesis uses a hermeneutic approach as its dominant research methodology, andethnographic research methods. It also makes a limited use of archival data andquantitative survey methods.