ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Introduction
section I|55 pages
Learning as place-making in displacement
chapter 2|18 pages
Schools as Community Assets for Place-making in Post-disaster Resettlement
chapter 3|19 pages
Collaborating Across Borders
chapter 4|16 pages
Making Place for Indigenous Learning in Displacement
section II|50 pages
Gendering place-making in response to displacement
chapter 6|15 pages
Where are the Women's Voices?
chapter 7|15 pages
Displacement as Unfolding Spatial and Gender Politics
section III|50 pages
Community Resilience and Indigenous Sense of Place
chapter 8|19 pages
The Real Tsunami in North Pagai
chapter 9|17 pages
Resilience to Disaster-driven Relocation Through Paiwan Inheritance Culture after Typhoon Morakot
chapter 10|12 pages
Finding Culture Through Agriculture
section IV|46 pages
Community (Re)building in Post-tsunami Relocation
chapter 11|13 pages
Diversification of Meanings of the Disaster-Stricken Area of Arahama
chapter 12|17 pages
Making a Community Around a Table
chapter 13|14 pages
Re-starting Traditional Events After Small-scale Community Relocation
section V|32 pages
Transnational Place-making from Bottom-up: Talk to the Actors