Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Place-making in Displacement
1st Edition
Published on 6. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-032-07315-6 (ISBN)
Description
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes and the critical moments that facilitate this development.
Interdisciplinary and using diverse research approaches, the book includes contributions by authors from a variety of disciplines across disaster research, sociology, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, earth science, and education. Mixed methods are adopted to carry out the research projects that ground this volume, including qualitative research for social scientific research, ethnographic methods and more importantly, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is also included by authors who have a background in design professions and a few indigenous scholars who are themselves survivors of disasters. The chapters are structured in the following five thematic sections:
Learning as place-making in displacement
Gender and place-making in response to displacement
Community resilience in keeping indigenous sense of place
Community (Re)building in displacement
Transnational Place-making: Talk to the Actor
Understanding how affected communities are recovering from their own perspectives, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies, political science, disaster planning and human geography.
Interdisciplinary and using diverse research approaches, the book includes contributions by authors from a variety of disciplines across disaster research, sociology, urban planning, architecture, anthropology, earth science, and education. Mixed methods are adopted to carry out the research projects that ground this volume, including qualitative research for social scientific research, ethnographic methods and more importantly, Participatory Action Research (PAR) is also included by authors who have a background in design professions and a few indigenous scholars who are themselves survivors of disasters. The chapters are structured in the following five thematic sections:
Learning as place-making in displacement
Gender and place-making in response to displacement
Community resilience in keeping indigenous sense of place
Community (Re)building in displacement
Transnational Place-making: Talk to the Actor
Understanding how affected communities are recovering from their own perspectives, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies, political science, disaster planning and human geography.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
17 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Zeichnung, 18 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-07315-6 (9781032073156)
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Shu-Mei Huang | Elizabeth Maly
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Place-making in Displacement
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12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
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Shu-Mei Huang | Elizabeth Maly
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Place-making in Displacement
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
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Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Place-making in Displacement
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Persons
Shu-Mei Huang is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Elizabeth Maly is Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan.
Elizabeth Maly is Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction. Placemaking in Displacement: Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Session I. Learning as place-making in displacement Chapter 2. Schools as community assets for placemaking in post-disaster resettlement: Reciprocal impacts of housing and education recovery in Tacloban, Philippines; Chapter 3. Collaborating Across Borders: Placemaking and Local Climate Adaptation in Rural Nepal and the Philippines; Chapter 4. Making place for Indigenous Learning in Displacement: Cultivating Land Wisdom in Recovery in Southern Taiwan Session II. Gendering place-making in response to displacement Chapter 5. More than mushrooms: Local food culture and place making after "Fukushima"; Chapter 6. Where are the women's voices? A Case study of Otsuchi Town after the Great East Japan Earthquake; Chapter 7. Displacement as unfolding spatial and gender politics: A Case Study of Indigenous Women's Participation in Place-Making in Rinari Session III. Community Resilience and Indigenous Sense of Place Chapter 8. The real tsunami in North Pagai: Indigenous survivors living between old and new settlements after the 2010 Mentawai disaster; Chapter 9. Resilience to Disaster-driven Relocation Through Paiwan Inheritance Culture after Typhoon Morakot: the Laiyi case in Taiwan; Chapter 10. Finding Culture Through Agriculture: Rukai Communities at a Post-disaster Recovery Site in Southern Taiwan Session IV Community (Re)building in Post-tsunami Relocation Chapter 11. Diversification of Meanings of the Disaster-Stricken Area of Arahama: Towards a Recovery by the "Design of Meanings"; Chapter 12. Making a Community Around a Table: Reconstruction of Mutual Help System by Tea Parties (Ocha-kai) and Lunch Parties After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake; Chapter 13. Re-starting Traditional Events After Small-scale Community Relocation Post-tsunami in Toyoma Village Session V. Transnational Placemaking from Bottom-up: Talk to the Actors (Transcribed/edited by Shu-Mei Huang, Elizabeth Maly, Yu- Yu-Hsin Chang) Chapter 14. Community/place-making in Otsuchi: A conversation with Mio Kamitani; Chapter 15. Transnational collaboration in the Pacific Rim: A conversation with Robert Olshansky, Ikuo Kobayashi, and Liang-Chun Chen; Chapter 16. Teaching and practicing in the Tohoku region: A conversation with Yasuaki Onoda; Index