Remembering the Future
Natural Disaster, Place, and Symbolic Survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2291256 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel A Shtob (0000-0002-1695-1762, Environmental Studies Program and Department of Sociology University of Oregon, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-147 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0112 • E-ISSN: 1549-0831 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ruso.12224 |
| OpenAlex | W2801671072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 53 |
The Pacific Northwest coast of the United States is currently facing the threat of an earthquake and tsunami some experts predict will be the worst natural disaster in North American history. This region also must contend with predicted effects of climate change. Applying the sociological traditions of memory, silence, and place to the natural hazard context, I qualitatively explore how local residents collectively envision future disasters and their associated risks. Responsive narratives are developed from an array of local meanings and identities drawn from place. They tend to partially displace narratives that visualize disasters as disruptive agents of danger, mnemonically replacing them with symbols of survival, continuity, and community agency. Overall, I find that this collective displacement manifests in event- and place-specific ways and partially silences disturbing aspects of potential disaster. These findings demonstrate the promise of analyzing the idiosyncratic ways that future environmental disaster is perceived and experienced. Because risk perception has been identified as a contributor to community resilience and capacity, these findings emphasize the need for local, place-based approaches to disaster planning, particularly in small communities with resource-extractive histories
Agency (philosophy · Collective memory · Community resilience · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Hazard · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Natural disaster · Natural hazard · Political science · Psychological resilience · Resource (disambiguation · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · History · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology
Interactionist Tools for Assessing Community Resilience
Seismic Risk Perception and Seismic Adjustments in Vaslui City, Romania
Earthquake Country
An endless present
More than a feeling
Remaking Resilience
Not in our water!“
Memoria y desastre socionatural. Una mirada global a los estudios sociales de la memoria y su relación con desastres socionaturales entre 2000 y 2020
Time's Up? How Temporal Maps of Climate Change Shape Climate Action
Back to the Future. Sociological Perspectives on Expectations, Aspirations and Imagined Futures
Eroding Landscapes, Emerging Carescapes
Searching for Higher Ground
Driving Down a Road and Not Knowing Where You're At
Flammable
The risk of social-psychological disruption as an impact of energy development and environmental change
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma
Community variations in social vulnerability to Cascadia-related tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Theories of Risk Perception
Is This America
For better or worse
The Elephant in the RoomSilence and Denial in Everyday Life
Toward a Social Psychology of Place
American Risk Perceptions
Place attachment, place identity, and place memory
Living in Denial
Meanings of Place
Unpacking the Unspoken
Modelling sea level rise impacts on storm surges along US coasts
Facing the Unexpected
Making Character Concrete
A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters
Is It Really Just a Social Construction
Environmental Concern
Place attachment
Lumping and splitting
Getting the Word Out
The Creation and Maintenance of Sense of Place in a Tourism-Dependent Community
Like a Fish Out of Water
Coastal Lagoons and Climate Change
Myths of Nature
History Repeats Itself, but How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place
Promoting Risk
The Rutgers School
Cosmopolitanizing Catastrophism
Social theory and trauma
From the Margins to the Mainstream? Disaster Research at the Crossroads
A Space for Place in Sociology
An Environmental Sociology for the Twenty-First Century
Communities of Place? New Evidence for the Role of Distance and Population Size in Community Attachment
Are Population and Land Use Changes Perceived as Threats to Sense of Place in the New West? A Multilevel Modeling Approach
Community Economic Identity
Landscapes
The narrative constitution of identity
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |