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'When natural disasters strike, the world's attention becomes focused on the human tragedy that ensues, and the international community mobilizes to get emergency relief to the affected areas. All too often, though, the TV cameras leave, sympathy fatigue sets in, and the world's attention shifts to the next crisis, leaving the victims to rebuild at best they can. Claire Apodaca shines a light on one troubling phenomenon that occurs in the aftermath of some of these events: the rise in repression and human rights violations by the government of the affected nation. Apodaca painstakingly traces out a causal process by which dissident movements can arise in the aftermath of natural disasters, the types of regimes under which such movements are likely to arise, and how, when faced with such challenges, which regime types are likely to respond with repression rather than some form of accommodation. Her analysis reveals that NGOs play a crucial role in this process by enabling affected populations in solving the collective action problems that, amid the conditions of a natural disaster, would otherwise preclude social movements by those most affected by the disaster but least served by the emergency aid from the international community. The story is compelling and the empirical tests are rigorous and convincing. This is an important work that creates an intersection between such diverse fields as human rights and state repression, social movements, and emergency management.' - T. David Mason, Castleberry Peace Institute

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Jackie Apodaca is a professor of theatre at Southern Oregon University. She has worked as an actor, director, and producer in theatre, film, and media, with companies such as the Roundabout, Denver Center, National Geographic, filmscience, Modern Media (head of production), Venice Theatre Works (associate artistic director), Shakespeare Santa Barbara (producing director), and Ashland New Plays Festival (associate artistic director). She spent more than a decade at Backstage, where she was a contributing editor and wrote the advice column ""The Working Actor."" Jackie earned an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory, under the guidance of RSC founding member, Tony Church. Michael Kostroff is an established actor best known for his five seasons on HBO’s The Wire and a long list of other television roles. He’s toured nationally in The Producers and Les Misérables, an experience which he chronicled in his book, Letters from Backstage (Allworth Press, 2005). From 2006 to 2012, he shared writing duties with Jackie Apodaca on Backstage’s advice column, ""The Working Actor."" A teacher as well as an actor and writer, he’s presented his popular Audition Psych 101 workshop all over the country, and recently authored a book by the same name (Dog Ear Publishing, 2017).

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