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Trans‐System Social Ruptures: Exploring Issues of Vulnerability and Resiliency 1
Author(s) -
Wachtendorf Tricia
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2009.00390.x
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , social vulnerability , psychological resilience , sociology , focus (optics) , political science , resilience (materials science) , social system , political economy , economic system , social psychology , psychology , social science , economics , computer security , computer science , physics , optics , thermodynamics
This essay takes up a recently introduced term, trans‐system social ruptures (TSSRs), and demonstrates its applicability to understanding ruptures to transnational systems. Using the relationship between Canada and the United States as a focus point, the article differentiates national from transnational system social ruptures. The article goes on to explore national and transnational system vulnerability to and resiliency from TSSRs. The distinction between the two types of TSSRs poses empirical, operational, and policy implications. The objective and subjective emergence of TSSRs as a social problem has much to offer to our understanding of disaster events and future crises. The article closes with several recommendations for theoretical development.