Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami

Rigg, Jonathan, Grundy-Warr, Carl, Law, Lisa, and Tan-Mullins, May (2008) Grounding a natural disaster: Thailand and the 2004 tsunami. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 49 (2). pp. 137-154.

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Abstract

Drawing on field work in Southern Thailand undertaken in July 2005, the study illuminates the complex and contingent way in which the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 affected communities, households and individuals. The paper problematises the indiscriminate/discriminate patterning of impact and recovery and also makes a case for a delocalised and transnational approach to understanding the impacts of the wave. Using the notion of 'tsunami footprints' and drawing on qualitative interviews, the paper proposes that impacts need to be seen in the context of the spatially dispersed networks of association that characterise the Thai space economy and Thai society. Drawing on work on poverty dynamics, the paper also explores three explanatory disjunctures in recovery transitions: the disjuncture between the pre-tsunami context and the post-tsunami situation; the disjuncture between structure and agency; and the disjuncture between the appearance of progressive and gradual change in societies and the lived reality of turbulence.

Item ID: 11611
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1467-8373
Keywords: recovery transitions; resilience; Thailand; tsunami; 'tsunami footprints'
Date Deposited: 12 Jul 2010 00:52
FoR Codes: 16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1604 Human Geography > 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9599 Other Cultural Understanding > 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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