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CeMoRe Visiting Fellow - Stephanie Sodero, Memorial University, Newfoundland
Date: 15 March 2016
Stephanie Sodero will be a visiting Fellow to CeMoRe from September 2016 for two years and is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada 2016-2018
Stephanie is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Memorial University and a recent Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Following studies at Trent University (Bachelor of Environmental Studies 1999) and at Dalhousie University (Masters of Environmental Studies 2001), she was fortunate to work for five years with one of Nova Scotia’s most active environmental organizations, the Ecology Action Centre. With colleagues, she initiated a range of mobility-related projects, including the development of a comprehensive Green Mobility Strategy, the creation of university and employer transit pass programs, and the establishment of a community infrastructure fund. She went on to research carbon taxation at the University of Oxford (Masters of Geography 2010), and is now studying the intersection of mobility and disaster under the supervision of environmental sociologist Dr. Mark Stoddart. Stephanie has published in the Journal of Transport Geography, Mobilities and Environmental Sociology.
Crisis mobilities and mobilities of crisis: The International Committee of the Red Cross and coordination of social media and supply chains in fast and slow onset events
Management of humanitarian crises is rapidly changing in an era of global social media and logistics. The use of social media is a megatrend in humanitarian response, while the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) describes logistics as the backbone of its operations. Research by humanitarian organizations offers valuable leads, but analyses of the combined role of innovations in social media and supply chain logistics for humanitarian response is lacking. In the context of both fast (e.g. Typhoon Haiyan) and slow (e.g. European refugee crisis) onset events, configurations between mobilities of people, materials and information are transformed through self-organizing social media, crisis mapping and novel supply change management technologies. These activities are ill understood in themselves and particularly in relation to each other. This is a critical gap to address given the import of, and anticipated demand for, the mobilization of humanitarian aid. My postdoctoral research will address this gap by answering the questions:
1. How does the ICRC monitor, coordinate and leverage social media and supply chains in the mobilization of people, materials and information?
2. How does the ICRC’s response vary for fast (i.e. Typhoon Haiyan) and slow (i.e. European refugee crisis) onset events exacerbated by climate change?
News website: http://stephaniesodero.weebly.com/
Further information
Associated staff: Monika Büscher
Associated departments and research centres: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Mobilities.Lab, Sociology
Keyword: Mobilities
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