Rural Risk and Disaster Management from a Relational Approach
Insights from Northern Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21766280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Kolmodin (0000-0002-4082-3736, Mid Sweden University), Olof Oscarsson (0000-0001-8715-1589, Mid Sweden University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 30-51 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Northern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1654-5915 • E-ISSN: 2004-4658 |
| Publisher | Umea University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.36368/jns.v17i2.1327 |
| OpenAlex | W4417490398 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
This article emphasizes the significance of relational concepts in understanding Disaster Management (DM) in rural areas. Specifically, we turn to the concepts of relational place and peripheralization to illustrate how places derive meaning from their relationships with other places and argue for a deeper understanding of how these dynamics influence DM professionals’ experiences of their work and of peripheralization. Despite extensive research on DM, place is often treated as a neutral backdrop rather than as an active agent that shapes professionals’ work. To explore the role of place in DM, we draw on interviews with professionals from four municipalities in northern Sweden, characterized by expansive geographies, declining populations, and a decreasing tax base. By employing the concept of relational place, we show how DM professionals perceive laws and regulations as ill-adapted to their contexts and their work as diverging from broader societal norms. We also illustrate how feelings of peripheralization, understood as a process rather than a static condition, are linked to the political, financial, and social dimensions of DM. Through this article, we aim to broaden the discourse on DM by providing insights into the unique challenges faced in rural contexts, emphasizing how these intersect with professionals’ understandings of place
Expansive · Feeling · Risk management · Disaster Management and Resilience · Regional resilience and development · Rural development and sustainability
The role of social capital, personal networks, and emergency responders in post-disaster recovery and resilience
Theme development in qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis
Community Emergency Planning
Peripheralization
Content analysis and thematic analysis
Filling the void
Rural Resilience and Voluntary Work in the North of Sweden
American Dunkirk
Landsbygder i brand
Challenges to Economic Development
Institutional foundations of disaster risk reduction policy
Resource capability for local government in managing disaster
It’s That Kind of Place Here”
Northern Crises
Stories of the storm
Peripheries within economic geography
Cities, hinterlands and disconnected urban-rural development
Relational rurals
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered
Envisioning sustainable rural development
(Re)producing a “Peripheral” Region – Northern Sweden in the News
Understanding Multiplexity of Collaborative Emergency Management Networks
Shifting relationships to place
Relational place‐making
Place-Framing” as Place-Making
Fostering coastal community resilience
Approaches to ‘vulnerability’ in eight European disaster management systems
Community Disaster Resilience and the Rural Resilience Index
What's place got to do with it? Collaboration among civil society actors in northern rural Sweden
Disaster Preparedness and Resilience for Rural Communities
Local knowledge as the basis of disaster management and humanitarian assistance
Urban-Rural Differences in Disaster Resilience
The Eventfulness of Place
Introduction
A Space for Place in Sociology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |