TY - JOUR
T1 - Sociospatial ties and postdisaster reconstruction
T2 - An analysis of the assemblage in the mega-fire of Valparaíso
AU - Berroeta, Héctor
AU - Pinto de Carvalho, Laís
AU - Castillo-Sepúlveda, Jorge
AU - Opazo, Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Disasters affect sociospatial links in a dynamic and unstable meshwork of aspects that are reconfigured. In this sense, accounting for this complexity is central to analyze the transformation of the sociospatial linkage of the affected people and communities. Addressing from community environmental psychology, we propose the concept of assemblage to guide a situated reading of subjective, material, and community aspects present in a reconstruction process after a disaster. Following a qualitative methodology, using spatially referenced narrative interviews (n = 16) and thematic analysis, it is described how these links are presented in a community that lived the mega-fire of a part of the city of Valparaíso in Chile. The results describe that the experience of being a community is a variable flow within a process defined by an ever-emerging configuration of spatial, technological, personal, social, and sensory characteristics. We conclude by pointing out the qualities of the communities when considered from an assemblage perspective.
AB - Disasters affect sociospatial links in a dynamic and unstable meshwork of aspects that are reconfigured. In this sense, accounting for this complexity is central to analyze the transformation of the sociospatial linkage of the affected people and communities. Addressing from community environmental psychology, we propose the concept of assemblage to guide a situated reading of subjective, material, and community aspects present in a reconstruction process after a disaster. Following a qualitative methodology, using spatially referenced narrative interviews (n = 16) and thematic analysis, it is described how these links are presented in a community that lived the mega-fire of a part of the city of Valparaíso in Chile. The results describe that the experience of being a community is a variable flow within a process defined by an ever-emerging configuration of spatial, technological, personal, social, and sensory characteristics. We conclude by pointing out the qualities of the communities when considered from an assemblage perspective.
KW - assemblage
KW - community
KW - reconstruction
KW - socionatural disasters
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089780454&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/jcop.22431
DO - 10.1002/jcop.22431
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089780454
SN - 0090-4392
VL - 49
SP - 95
EP - 117
JO - Journal of Community Psychology
JF - Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 1
ER -