Social capital discourse occupies an important place in disaster studies. Scholars have adopted various inflections of social capital to explain how those with greater amounts of this crucial resource are generally more resilient to disasters and experience speedier recovery. Disaster scholars have also discovered that people typically display altruistic tendencies in the wake of disasters and develop novel networks of mutual support, known as ‘communitas’, which is also seen to build resilience and boost recovery. In this paper, we use the work of Pierre Bourdieu to synthesise these literatures, conceptualising communitas as ‘disaster social capital’. We offer a fleshed-out definition of disaster social capital to distinguish it from regular social capital and discuss the barriers to, and the enablers of, its formation. While primarily a conceptual discussion, we believe that it has practical and policy value for disaster scholars and practitioners interested in inclusive disaster risk reduction as well as full and just recoveries.

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将灾害社会资本概念化：它是什么、为什么重要以及如何增强它

社会资本话语在灾害研究中占有重要地位。学者们采用了各种社会资本的变化来解释那些拥有更多这种关键资源的人通常如何更能抵御灾害并经历更快的恢复。灾难学者还发现，人们通常会在灾难发生后表现出利他主义倾向，并发展出新的相互支持网络，称为“社区”，这也被认为可以增强复原力和促进恢复。在本文中，我们使用 Pierre Bourdieu 的工作来综合这些文献，将社区概念化为“灾难社会资本”。我们提供了灾害社会资本的充实定义，以将其与常规社会资本区分开来，并讨论其形成的障碍和促成因素。