Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda

The mobilization for disaster justice in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda provides an important case for analyzing the process of demanding disaster justice. In thisarticle I highlight how the framing of disaster justice by People Surge, a grassroots organization of Yolanda survivors based in...

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Main Author: Yee, Dakila Kim
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-11822024-08-07T03:42:03Z Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda Yee, Dakila Kim The mobilization for disaster justice in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda provides an important case for analyzing the process of demanding disaster justice. In thisarticle I highlight how the framing of disaster justice by People Surge, a grassroots organization of Yolanda survivors based in Tacloban City, focuses on two demands in the aftermath of the disaster: a distributive demand for disaster aid and a critique against the social contract with the state by claiming that its actions in the aftermath of the disaster constituted “criminal negligence.” I also show that the framing of disaster justice was affected by shifts in the political opportunity available to People Surge.KEYWORDS: DISASTER JUSTICE • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS • DISASTER POLITICS • DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION • PEOPLE SURGE 2023-11-30T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol71/iss4/2 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/1182/viewcontent/Demanding_20Disaster_20Justice_20_5Bvol._2071_20no._204_20_282023_29_20467_E2_80_9393_5D.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description The mobilization for disaster justice in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda provides an important case for analyzing the process of demanding disaster justice. In thisarticle I highlight how the framing of disaster justice by People Surge, a grassroots organization of Yolanda survivors based in Tacloban City, focuses on two demands in the aftermath of the disaster: a distributive demand for disaster aid and a critique against the social contract with the state by claiming that its actions in the aftermath of the disaster constituted “criminal negligence.” I also show that the framing of disaster justice was affected by shifts in the political opportunity available to People Surge.KEYWORDS: DISASTER JUSTICE • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS • DISASTER POLITICS • DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION • PEOPLE SURGE
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title Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda
title_short Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda
title_full Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda
title_fullStr Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda
title_full_unstemmed Demanding Disaster Justice: Social Movement Framing and Mobilization after Super Typhoon Yolanda
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