Abstract
Just as the rich knowledge of craftsmen was once the basis of working life, thecomplex knowledge of ordinary people has organized life outside of work and heldcommunities together to confront all kinds of disasters. In this paper, FEMA’s model of man prevented it from understanding how local knowledge could be used to prepare for an earthquake and then contributed to making things worse in New Orleans. This paper explores the use of another model of socially distributed knowledge and action for protecting people from natural disasters, especially at the bottom.
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