https://emsenn.net/tags/practices/ Recent content in Practices 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/texts/practices-of-emergent-disaster-response/ 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/texts/practices-of-emergent-disaster-response/ <p>Emergent disaster response relies on a recurring cluster of practices. Across storms, floods, and pandemics, grassroots groups repeatedly use local needs assessment, decentralized volunteer intake, improvised logistics, hub-based distribution, peer communication, and adaptive resource routing rather than fixed top-down workflows [@ambinder2013; @twiggmosel2017; @knearem2024].</p> <h2 id="direct-listening-and-local-needs-assessment">Direct listening and local needs assessment</h2> <p>Groups begin by asking affected people what they need and then updating those answers as conditions change. Common Ground&rsquo;s early work in New Orleans and later mutual-aid networks during COVID both relied on this practice rather than treating need as something fully knowable from a distance [@commonground2024; @knearem2024].</p>