GEOG 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Heat Exhaustion, Natural Disaster, Social Vulnerability
16 Aug 2017
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Study two matched neighborhood with contrasting mortality experiences during the heat wave. People died and they were alone for years. Some people never had their stuff picked up. Create a social autopsy of the 1995 chicago heat waves p. 11 (cid:498)this study establishes that heat wave deaths represent what paul farmer calls (cid:498)biological reflections of social fault lines. (cid:499)(cid:499) Look at the marginalization in the city (people who were already suffering). Using extreme event to talk about everyday inequality. Allowing him to see things about cihcago that we cannot recognize in the day to day. Are these relevant only for disasters: a demographic shift. He grew up in chicago and the rest of the world was not aware of the heat wave. He wanted the matches to be different: cdc studied individuals. Studied ppl who died, and controls were people next door.
