Making Things Happen: Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

by Jane Murphy Thomas

Overview

Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment—one cause being ineffective interactions between construction and local people—PERRP used anthropological and participatory approaches. Along with strong construction management, such approaches led to the rebuilding being completed on time. As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805393405
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	08/02/2024
Series:	Catastrophes in Context , #5
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Jane Murphy Thomas is an independent consultant, practitioner, project manager and social anthropologist in projects for UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donor agencies, and consulting firms, specializing in anthropological approaches and community participation in conflict and disaster-prone locations.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Anecdotes and Ethnographies
Preface. Stakeholder Remarks
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Moment the Quake Struck
Chapter 2. Contexts of a Reconstruction Site
Chapter 3. Community Participation: What Has Happened to It?
Chapter 4. The Social Component
Chapter 5. Social and Technical Integration
Chapter 6. PERRP Design and Construction
Chapter 7. The Library Challenge
Chapter 8. The Social Anthropology of Reconstruction
Conclusion

Appendix: Schools and Health Facilities Constructed in the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Program (2006–2013)

References
Index

Editorial Reviews

“I find the book to be truly remarkable and absolutely stand-alone in what it describes and what it does. As opposed to the usual disheartening tale of the failure of a disaster reconstruction (or development) project, detailed here is a totally successful post-disaster reconstruction achievement due to the express involvement throughout of the anthropological perspective and community participation.” • Susanna Hoffman, Chair of The Risk and Disaster Commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences (IUAES)

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