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Monteil, Charlotte, Barclay, Jenni 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6122-197X and Hicks, Anna
(2020)
Remembering, forgetting, and absencing disasters in the post-disaster recovery process.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 11 (3).
pp. 287-299.
ISSN 2095-0055
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Abstract
Sustainable post-disaster recovery implies learning from past experience in order to prevent recreating forms of vulnerability. Memory construction supports both the healing process and redevelopment plans. Hence, memory of disaster results from the balance between remembering, forgetting, and absencing elements of the disaster, and can be both a tool and an obstacle to sustainable recovery. We explore here how collective memory is built in a post-disaster context to respond to the needs of this critical period, and how it shapes recovery. This ethnographic study, conducted between 2015 and 2017, explores the recovery processes in Montserrat, a small Caribbean island affected by an extended volcanic crisis from 1995 to 2010. Although this study does not give tangible solutions for disaster risk reduction in a post-disaster context, it highlights potential obstacles for learning from a disaster and how they may be surmounted. We argue that it is crucial to acknowledge evolving collective memory in order to implement effective measures for preserving and sharing a shared understanding of disaster across generations and social groups in a way that supports disaster risk awareness. We also maintain that acknowledging the dilemma faced by authorities and disaster management agencies during a period of conflicting needs may encourage the reconsideration of risk framing, and hence reveal how to improve implementation of disaster risk reduction measures.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Geosciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2020 00:04 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2023 11:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76990 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13753-020-00277-8 |
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