Some excerpts from Ohio State University's Disaster Research Center's Working Paper #71, "Looting in Disaster," by Jane Gray and Elizabeth Wilson, August 1984, prepared for a conference discussion on the topic of the sociology of disaster.
The is worth a read. As is "What Looting in Civil Disturbances Really Means," from 1968, and "Local And National Media Coverage Of Disaster: A Content Analysis Of The Print Media's Treatment Of Disaster Myths," from 1986.
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I thought that too. I felt like a bad person because looting in disaster is a serious topic.
(Seriously, guys, stop looting in me!)
I am such an asshole.
Thank you for researching this.
Eula Biss's essay "Is This Kansas" from her "Notes on No Man's Land" also is a great analysis of when looting is looting:
http://www.eulabiss.net/reviews.html
NEWSFLASH: THE MEDIA IS PRONE TO HYPE AND EXAGGERATION!!!
There is a word for it-
Appropriating behavior involves a person taking property owned by another to use it for emergency purposes and, depending upon the item, with the intent of returning it at a later date.
Someone should print this out, march over to 30 Rock, and slap Meredith Viera across the face with it. (Also sociology nerd LOLZ at the Durkheim cite. Unpossible to write a sosh paper without the old boy!)
It's not looters taking your shit, it's God punishing you for worshipping the devil/fucking dudes/throwing parades for mardi gras.
fucking dudes and mardi gras parties are intimately intertwined.
it's terrible
Wait, you can just say "such and such 'somewhere notes'?" I just wasted five fucking hours...
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