Existing power restoration policies place larger burdens on marginalized communities, motivating the need for including power restoration to vulnerable communities among restoration priorities. We find that communities with ties to the ruling party elicit greater government responsiveness while socially vulnerable communities are less likely to be prioritized during the disaster relief efforts, controlling for disaster damage as well as logistical, economic, and essential service recovery priorities. We use data on power restoration crew deployments (N = 18,614 deployments), a novel measure of government responsiveness, and a new social vulnerability index to assess the determinants of government responsiveness in the wake of disasters. All rights reserved.ĭo social vulnerabilities and ruling party support shape government responsiveness in times of disasters? The 2017 hurricane María territory-wide power outage, the second longest in world history, is a tragic natural experiment that provides a unique opportunity to examine the determinants of government responsiveness during disaster recovery processes. © 2021, University of North Carolina Press. We conclude by calling on geographers to resiliently remember with BIPOC communities and cultural institutions to promote justice and inclusion of BIPOC in the politics of the future South. In each case, we highlight BIPOC cultural institutions already performing resilient remembering and consider ways in which these efforts may be amplified to confront the rapidly changing conditions ahead. Next, we survey four Southern cases where emerging and interrelated threats of closure, cultural tokenism, dispossession, and managed retreat specifically endanger Black sites of memory. Drawing from hazards and cultural geographies, we describe four principles for resilient remembering: continuity, visibility, adaptability, and legitimacy. We dis-cuss interactions between memory and the environment that present opportunities for more just, equitable, and sustainable commemorations as well as interactions that may undermine progress toward that vision. This paper serves as a preliminary commentary on the future resilience and vulnerability of Southern sites of memory about and for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC).
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