Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters

The Case of an Earthquake in Java, Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID19898835
EditorsManfred Zaumseil, Silke Schwarz (0000-0003-2567-2797), Mechthild Von Vacano (0009-0004-6487-1785), Gavin Brent Sullivan, Johana E Prawitasari-Hadiyono
Year2014
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer New York (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-9354-9
OpenAlexW2498895737
ISBN9781461493549
Open LibraryOL26184883M
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited17

As the interdependence between human activities and natural forces on earth grows in instability, disaster research is maturing as a discipline, employing concepts and methods from fields as disparate as psychology, history, and engineering. But psychological studies have mainly focused on post-disaster pathology or standard themes of coping, rarely taking cultural factors into consideration. Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters addresses this omission with an innovative framework for studying culture-specific concepts of vulnerability and local forms of resilience. Expert contributors both build on and transcend traditional clinical ideas to analyze four distinct dimensions of coping: material, social, life conduct, and religious. Extensive findings on the 2006 Java earthquake illustrate both concepts and methods in real-world detail. And a chapter on villagers' visions of their future ably demonstrates the balance between the personal and the collective in coping. Included in the coverage: Methodological basis of a culture-specific coping approach. Research ethics: between formal norms and intentions. Suffering, healing, and the discourse of trauma. Disaster aid distribution and social conflicts. Critical perspectives on gender mainstreaming in disaster contexts. Plus a multidimensional framework for analyzing the coping process. A truly transdisciplinary work, Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters lends itself to a wide range of professional, academic, and research domains, among them disaster psychology, disaster management/aid, cultural psychology, anthropology, public policy, and public health. The book also makes a useful text for courses in these and other fields

Coping (psychology) · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence) · Political science · Psychotherapist · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · 2006 · Applied Psychology · Community and Environmental Psychology · Disaster victims · Environmental psychology · Ethnopsychology · Indonesia · Mental Health · Natural Disasters · Philosophy (General) · Psychological aspects · Psychotherapy and Counseling · Social aspects · sociological aspects · Yogyakarta Earthquake

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