Building community resilience during COVID‐19: Learning from rural Bangladesh
Building community resilience during COVID‐19: Learning from rural Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought overwhelming challenges to developing countries which are already resource-constrained and lack adequate social safety nets. Specifically, lockdown has adversely impacted marginalized communities (e.g., labourer, fish wholesaler and small business owner) and informal sector employees who rely on meager daily wages for their survival. Set in the contested climate of the emergency response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Phulbari, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, we examine the early response of the community to the pandemic. Drawing on 24 in-depth interviews with members of this community, we find that the existing central and regional government structure has failed to deal with the crisis. Yet, we show how collective effort at the local community level, led by volunteers and community leaders, is crucial in the fight against hardship during lockdown.
Covid-19, community resilience, crisis, lockdown, marginalized community
327-338
Ahmad, Farooq
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Chowdhury, Rashedur
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Siedler, Benjamin
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Odek, Wilson
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1 September 2022
Ahmad, Farooq
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Chowdhury, Rashedur
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Siedler, Benjamin
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Ahmad, Farooq, Chowdhury, Rashedur, Siedler, Benjamin and Odek, Wilson
(2022)
Building community resilience during COVID‐19: Learning from rural Bangladesh.
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 30 (3), .
(doi:10.1111/1468-5973.12405).
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought overwhelming challenges to developing countries which are already resource-constrained and lack adequate social safety nets. Specifically, lockdown has adversely impacted marginalized communities (e.g., labourer, fish wholesaler and small business owner) and informal sector employees who rely on meager daily wages for their survival. Set in the contested climate of the emergency response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Phulbari, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, we examine the early response of the community to the pandemic. Drawing on 24 in-depth interviews with members of this community, we find that the existing central and regional government structure has failed to deal with the crisis. Yet, we show how collective effort at the local community level, led by volunteers and community leaders, is crucial in the fight against hardship during lockdown.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 March 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 March 2022
Published date: 1 September 2022
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We sincerely thank the editorial board as well as the handling editor and three annonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and guidance in improving this article. We also thank our research assistants in Bangladesh for helping us to conduct this study.
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© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Covid-19, community resilience, crisis, lockdown, marginalized community
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/456048
ISSN: 0966-0879
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