The genealogy and trends of disaster social science in the United States : From the School of Disaster Research Center

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  • アメリカ災害社会科学の系譜と研究動向 : 災害研究センター(DRC)を中心とした歴史背景から
  • アメリカ サイガイ シャカイ カガク ノ ケイフ ト ケンキュウ ドウコウ サイガイ ケンキュウ センター DRC ヲ チュウシン ト シタ レキシテキ ハイケイ カラ

Abstract

This research takes an historical approach to the study of trends in disaster social science in the United States, especially focusing on studies since the 1960s. The genealogy, focusing mainly on the work conducted at the Disaster Research Center, is summarized by key words of the disaster sciences, then the current line of studies is introduced using two cases of the disasters (the Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 attacks), and finally the trends using keywords are extracted by text-mining method. On the whole, disaster social science in the United States is based on the perspective of “disaster as process (process)” but not “disaster as event” and it is now targeting not only response such as how disaster response groups emerge, but also mid-and long-term recovery phases. However, it is still contested as to whether researchers chose “disaster as process” or not; it is because most disaster social scientists investigate catastrophic “events” and changes the research field from them when the catastrophic other one would happen. The authors point out problems and dangers that this style tends to “bleach” the social, cultural, and historical background and universalize the singular experience that local communities have had.

Journal

  • 災害と共生

    災害と共生 2 (2), 15-40, 2019-01

    「災害と共生」研究会

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390572174766410368
  • NII Article ID
    120006547471
  • DOI
    10.18910/71124
  • ISSN
    24332739
  • HANDLE
    11094/71124
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • IRDB
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN

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