https://emsenn.net/tags/assistance/ Recent content in Assistance on emsenn.net Hugo en-us Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/domains/critical-theory/domains/anarchism/domains/disaster-response/domains/emergent-disaster-response/terms/situational-altruism/ Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/humanities/domains/sociology/domains/critical-theory/domains/anarchism/domains/disaster-response/domains/emergent-disaster-response/terms/situational-altruism/ <p>Situational altruism is Russell Dynes&rsquo;s term for the massive but often uneven surge of helping behavior that disasters elicit [@dynes1994].</p> <p>The term matters because it explains why disaster assistance regularly contains both extraordinary generosity and serious pathologies. Too much help, the wrong kind of help, overlap, gaps in service, and inefficient delivery are not accidental noise around the response. They are part of the same social process that produces large-scale helping in the first place [@dynes1994].</p>