Title
Introduction: Shock chains and parallel shocks: Towards a social science of the recovery society
Author
Bryson, John R. (University of Birmingham)
Andres, Lauren (University College London (UCL))
Ersoy, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management) 
Reardon, Louise (University of Birmingham)
Contributor
Andres, Lauren (editor)
Bryson, John R. (editor)
Ersoy, Aksel (editor)
Reardon, Louise (editor)
Date
2024
Abstract
Any one shock is never isolated from other shocks and any one recovery process will be complicated by further related and unrelated shocks and their related recovery processes. This chapter highlights the interactions that occur between shocks that are experienced in parallel or simultaneously and those that occur linearly and take the form of shock chains. These shock processes suggest that there needs to be further social science research on the complexity of shock and related recovery processes, to contribute to academic debate, but also to inform practice, policy development, and implementation. There needs to be a new social science research agenda on characterizing the features of the recovery society. A key issue is that there are many alternative recovery pathways and that each emerges through a set of iterative relationships between people, place, organisations, institutions, and governance processes. These alternatives reflect path dependency and previous decisions and related investments but are complicated by place-based intersectionality that compounds the ways in which parallel shocks and shock chains, and related recovery processes, interact with one another forming highly contextualised shock-related impacts and which then mediate the impacts of recovery processes in practice.
Subject
shocks
recovery processes
shock chains
parallel shocks
recovery society
social order
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201116.00008
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham/Northampton, MA
Embargo date
2024-07-12
ISBN
9781802201109
Source
Pandemic Recovery?: Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges
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Document type
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Rights
© 2024 John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, A. Ersoy, Louise Reardon