Overview
- Provides critical analyses of issues arising from a decade of interconnected disasters in Ōtautahi Christchurch
- Employs the CDS perspectives for deeper understanding of the root causes and drivers of social vulnerability
- Positions Ōtautahi Christchurch as a living laboratory for the future
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Critical Framings of Disasters
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Critical Voices in Disasters
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Ōtautahi as a Laboratory for the World: A Prelude to the Future
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Keywords
- Critical Framings of Disasters
- Disasters and Responses
- Christchurch Earthquakes
- Traumatised Government Institutions
- Community Resilience and Crisis
- Christchurch Recovery
- Freshwater crisis in Canterbury
- Migrants and Resilience
- Migrants and Disasters
- Māori Community and Canterbury Earthquake
- Urban Indigenous Post-Disaster in New Zealand
- Reconstruction Post-Disaster
- Marginalised voices in Disasters
- Land-use planning in disaster
- Disaster recovery governance
- Māori perspectives in Christchurch
- Disasters and social movements
- Disasters and democracy
- Public engagement in disaster recovery
- Ōtautahi Earthquake
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Reviews
“Ten years on, Uekusa, Matthewman, and Glavovic provide a timely edited book that critically examines the devastating Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2010-2011. By bringing an impressive and diverse range of scholars together, the book articulates the social, political, historical, environmental, and intersectional considerations to forward Ōtautahi Christchurch as a ‘laboratory for the world’ that informs disaster futures and a call to action”. (–Jay Marlowe, Associate Professor of Social Work, Co-director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.)
“These critical approaches enable a much deeper understanding of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence as well as the different experiences, social and political responses and long-term impacts of waves of disasters in Christchurch. Due to the long chain of individual disasters (but also connected at the same time), the case of Christchurch is unique and particularly suitable as a research object of critical disaster studies to enable learning processes and help to identify best practices”. (–Daniel F. Lorenz, Research Associate, Disaster Research Unit (DRU), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.)
“This is a rich resource for disaster researchers everywhere. At the same time, and more empathetically, it provides spaces for diverse voices and for stories untold. Too often, disasters are thought of as single extreme events manageable through technical solutions. The ‘living laboratory’ of Ōtautahi Christchurch reveals the more complex and extended journey of those who live through disaster. The critical disaster studies perspective, which underpins this book, offers not just an evidence base from a decade of disaster experience but also a potential springboard for social change”. (–Maureen Fordham, Professor of Gender and Disaster Resilience, Director of the IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, University College London, UK.)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shinya Uekusa is a disaster sociologist and most recently works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Culture and Society at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has returned to Aotearoa and joined Massey University’s Health and Ageing Research Team (HART) to work on the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) funded research project on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on older people in Aotearoa. His main research interests are in (im)migration, the sociology of language, and disaster sociology, particularly focusing on how the socially disadvantaged groups such as (im)migrants, refugees and linguistic minorities experience and cope with cultural, economic, environmental, political and social challenges.
Steve Matthewman is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Auckland. His last book on disasters was Disasters, Risks and Revelation: Making Sense of Our Times (2015). He also co-edited Exploring Society: Sociology forNew Zealand Students (Auckland University Press, 2019) with Ruth McManus, and the third edition of Being Sociological (Red Globe Press) with Bruce Curtis and David Mayeda. His current research project is a three-year Royal Society of New Zealand-funded work “Power Politics: Electricity and Sustainability in Post-Disaster Ōtautahi (Christchurch)”. The broad focus of this research is on how we build sustainability into the city. The narrow focus is on the place of renewable energy in this process.
Bruce C. Glavovic is a Professor at Massey University. For much of the last decade his research has focused on the role of governance and natural hazards planning in addressing vulnerability and risk in a changing climate. He is Senior Editor for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science and co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ocean & Coastal Management. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the chapter on sea level rise ina 2019 IPCC Special Report and is a Lead Author and Cross Chapter Paper co-lead in the IPCC’s forthcoming Working Group II Sixth Assessment Report.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Book Subtitle: Critical Disaster Studies Perspectives
Editors: Shinya Uekusa, Steve Matthewman, Bruce C. Glavovic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6863-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6862-3Published: 14 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-6865-4Published: 16 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-6863-0Published: 13 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 405
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Human Geography, Public Administration, Governance and Government