Spaces of post-disaster experimentation
Agile entrepreneurship and geological agency in emerging disaster countercartographies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4817111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Dickinson (0000-0003-2146-1271, University of Plymouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 621-640 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848618812023 |
| OpenAlex | W2900574003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article explores emergent spaces of social and political experimentation after the Canterbury, New Zealand, earthquakes of 2010-2011. Acknowledging that disasters generate distinctive spaces which reveal and provoke potentially disruptive imaginations and actions, I explore how the earthquakes gave rise to political experiments through which uncertainties were sensed, ordered and negotiated in the hopeful enactment of both conservative and radically alternative futures. Namely, I argue that the ruptures afforded by the earthquakes opened up the possibility for the dominant practices of a complex political conservatism in Christchurch to be challenged through the emergence of new and previously restrained claims to the city that have manifested, in part, through an emergent community organisation - the Canterbury Communities' Earthquake Recovery Network (CanCERN). Despite the earthquakes fuelling these repressed claims, this article explores the ways that these visions, claims and disquiets were shaped by evolving understandings of the nature and potential of the earthquake event. Analysis of CanCERN's activity reveals a kind of agile social entrepreneurship that remained alert to the opening and closing spaces of possibility within the disaster recovery landscape. Subsequently, this account works to not only draw attention to the discordant temporalities of possibility post-disaster, but also opens up discussion about the ways in which post-disaster experiments are shaped by unfolding senses of geological agency and indeterminacy
Economics · Entrepreneurship · Futures contract · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Vision · Anthropology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Gender Studies · Law
Social-ecological inventory in a postdisaster context
The civic legacies of disaster for youth political agency
Adapting whilst recovering
Watching the disaster unfold
Alternative narrations and imaginations of disaster recovery
The politics of expertise in building back better
The signature of the disaster
Risky energy geographies
Experimentation, privilege, and difference
Triggering multi-actor change cascades
Transitional Ethics and Aesthetics
Temporalities of creativity in city-making
Catastrophe and Culture
The Angry Earth
Disaster Management and Civil Society
Building Resilience
Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster
Resilience? Contested meanings and experiences in post‐disaster Christchurch, New Zealand
Inhuman Nature
Disaster politics
Disaster and emergency management systems in urban areas
Introduction
Boundary crossings and new striations
Transitional organisations, affective atmospheres and new forms of being‐in‐common
Community resilience, social memory and the post‐2010 C hristchurch ( N ew Z ealand) earthquakes
Towards an evental geography
An event of geographical ethics in spaces of affect
Emergent Citizen Groups and Emergency Management
Disastrous Publics
Gender and Hurricane Mitch
A Game of Cat's Cradle
Parkour, the City, the Event
Corporeal Remains
Atmospheres of Indagation
Introduction
Afterword
Disaster studies
| Citations per year | 1.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |