All the Years Combine: The Expansion and Contraction of Time and Memory in Disaster Response

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................249 Methodology ..................................................................................................................................250 The Compression of Memory after a Volcanic Eruption ............................................................... 251 Wildfire and the Expanses of Memory .......................................................................................... 252 Discussion ...................................................................................................................................... 255 Lessons Learned ............................................................................................................................. 255 Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................................256 References ...................................................................................................................................... 257

Hawdon and Ryan 2008; Komac 2009). Memories are also social reconstructions wrought by present concerns (Halbwachs 1992; Trouillot 1995), reaffirming, as Ricoeur (2004) says, that the recursive process of memory (re)construction makes the distinction between recall and imagination an often elusive pursuit.