CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Volkova, Alla |
|---|---|
| Title | THE DIALECTICS OF RESILIENCE: EXAMINING THE TRAJECTORIES OF RECOVERY THROUGH THE SPATIAL EXPERIENCES OF THE 2010 CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI |
| Summary | This research introduces three ethnographies from the Bio Bio region of Chile: the coastal town of Dichato, the central port area of Talcahuano and the residential neighborhood Barrio Cruz of Concepcion and explore the uneven trajectories of recovery deployed in the aftermath of the Chilean’s 2010 earthquake and tsunami. The analytical framework of the research translates the ordinary spatial experiences from the recovery stories into groups of recovery narratives to illuminates the processes of social production within the post-disastrous urban fabric. The coexistence of affirmative and alternative narratives of recovery leads to the important conclusion about the dialectical nature of resilience and demonstrates the existence of multiple resiliences that correspond to different actors, strategies and tactics. This argument enables to conceptualize patterns that accelerate or constrain the processes of spatial transformation and suggests two important considerations regarding the drivers behind the uneven trajectories of post-disaster recovery. First of these considerations illuminates the dynamic interaction between recovery and resilience, where the changing power dynamics of different actors determines the set of scenarios that outline the potential directions of post-disaster recovery efforts. Second consideration embeds the idea of dialectical resilience into a broader debate on the interrelatedness of the concepts of emergency, disaster and catastrophe, and suggests that each recovery case is a continuous and open-ended dialectical process, which is inseparable from the everyday human actions. |
| Supervisor | Dafinger, Andreas; Vedres Balazs |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/volkova_alla.pdf |
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