Search | Disaster STS Network

Timeline: California reacts to coronavirus

This timeline tracks how California state and local governments tackled the evolving COVID-19 crisis since the first case was detected.

St. Louis Anthropocene: displacement & replacement

JJP

Annotation of

St. Louis Anthropocene

In response to

What have you learned about anthropocenics in this place?

A brief essay about St. Louis' notorious eminent domain history--

--along with 2 recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch articles about "urban renewal" projects that are scheduled to reoccupy the Mill Flats area, which hosted the most notorious episode of displacement of African-American communities: the Chouteau Greenway project (will it serve or displace low-income St. Louisans?); and SLU's Mill Creek Flats high-rise project, which certainly will, and whose name seems to me an especially tone-deaf if gutsy move...

https://humanities.wustl.edu/features/Margaret-Garb-St-Louis-Eminent-Domain

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/steelcote-developer-plans-more-apartments-brewery-space-in-million-midtown/article_811eaf96-76e1-5c20-a870-1e79abd3f06e.html

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local/chouteau-greenway-project-aims-to-knit-st-louis-neighborhoods-together/article_55fea4e6-6829-5c80-9168-313305b4e3bb.html

pece_annotation_1474926847

maryclare.crochiere

Annotation of

Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11

In response to

What three points, details or references from the film did you follow up on to learn more? Write short descriptions of what you learned in your search, providing citations.

I looked into the wide varitey of illnesses that stemmed from the cleanup. I also investigated where the hazards came from - the get fuel, the burning chemicals and computer parts and building materials.

pece_annotation_1476147850

maryclare.crochiere

Annotation of

Intimate Partner Violence and Hurricane Katrina: Predictors and Associated Mental Health Outcomes

In response to

Where is this study published? Give a brief description of the journal, including what types of studies and topics they usually publish and how the publication is regarded among health professionals.

It is published in "Violence & Victims", which is a peer-reviewed journal that analyzes all aspects of interpeersonal violence. The journal features contributions from many fields, from medicine to law to social work.

pece_annotation_1477276048

maryclare.crochiere

Annotation of

Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

In response to

Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.

The arguments are supported by many citations of other research and work that has been done on the various topics that are discussed. This involves looking at hard data that has been conclused, as well as qualitative data like risk factors and examples of disasters.