RAPID: The Impact of Infrastructural Stress on Civil Society Participation in Post-Disaster Contexts

众所周知，地震、飓风、海啸和洪水等事件对自然和社会景观都有重要影响，但较少讨论自然灾害对民间社会的影响。这项拟议的研究旨在研究2017年的飓风伊尔玛和玛丽亚可能会如何影响波多黎各的公民社会行为。这些历史性的风暴肯定标志着一个转折点，不仅是因为它们对该岛的基础设施造成了巨大破坏，而且对于数百万波多黎各人连续数周没有电、水和基本服务而造成的长期紧急状态也是如此。飓风玛丽亚已经造成了美国历史上最大的停电，它造成了比卡特里娜飓风更大的基础设施破坏，并准备彻底改变波多黎各的岛屿及其政治未来。这个项目利用这种独特的基础设施压力状态来研究风暴及其恢复过程将如何在未来几年塑造公民社会的行为。此外，该项目将加强美国大陆和波多黎各科学家之间的合作，扩大未被充分代表的群体在科学领域的参与，并对本科生和研究生进行以科学为基础和经验数据收集方法的培训。这一快速奖励支持波多黎各收集关键但短暂的数据，这些数据涉及强调基础设施在灾后情况下民间社会参与中的作用。罗格斯大学的Yarimar Bonilla博士探讨了波多黎各的紧急状态，以及飓风伊尔玛和玛丽亚之后随之而来的基本基础设施瘫痪，如何塑造了社会政治行为。这项研究将使用2016年收集的基线数据，参与者超过1000人，分布在波多黎各的五个不同区域地点。对于这一项目，波多黎各大学的研究人员将在国际和平研究所的监督下，联系先前进行的研究的参与者，采访他们如何经历风暴和恢复过程。调查人员将评估紧急状态可能如何冲击先前存在的政治信仰，特别是它可能如何影响(或不影响)建州的愿望。这项研究的结果将有助于提供一幅复杂的图景，说明气候事件的影响如何受到现有治理形式的制约，并将有助于阐明自然灾害如何改变政治和社会地形。

Events like earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods are known to have important effects on both natural and social landscapes, but less discussed is the impact that natural disasters have on civil society. The proposed research seeks to examine how the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria might impact civil social behavior in Puerto Rico. These historic storms are certain to mark a turning point, not only for the massive damage they have caused to the island's infrastructure, but also for the extended state of emergency that was produced when millions of Puerto Ricans remained without electricity, water, and basic services for numerous weeks. Hurricane Maria has already created the largest black out in US history, it has caused greater infrastructural damage than Katrina, and is poised to completely transform the island of Puerto Rico and its political future. This project takes advantage of this unique state of infrastructural stress to ask how the storm, and its recovery process, will shape civil society behavior in years to come. In addition, the project would strengthen collaboration among scientists in the mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico, broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences, and train undergraduate and graduate students in methods of scientifically-grounded and empirical data collection.This RAPID award supports the collection of critical but ephemeral data in Puerto Rico concerning the role that stresses on infrastructure play on civil society participation in post-disaster contexts. Dr. Yarimar Bonilla of Rutgers University explores how Puerto Rico's state of emergency, and the accompanying paralysis of basic physical infrastructure following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, have shaped sociopolitical behaviors. The study will use baseline data gathered in 2016 with over one thousand participants across five different regional sites in Puerto Rico. For this project researchers from the University of Puerto Rico, under the supervision of the PI, will contact participants from the previously conducted study to interview them about how they have experienced the storm and the recovery process. Investigators will assess how the state of emergency might have jostled pre-existing political beliefs, particularly how it might impact the desire (or not) for statehood. The results of this study will help offer a complex portrait of how the effects of climatic events are conditioned by pre-existing forms of governance and will help illuminate how natural disasters can transform political and social terrains.