Inhabiting “no places”: Subjectivity and family abilities for confronting a socio-natural disaster in Chile

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Luisa Rojas-Páez¹  José Sebastián Sandoval-Día² 

[1] Instituto de Seguridad Laboral, Chile;Universidad del Bío Bío, Chile;

关键词: coping abilities;    socio-natural disaster;    environmental displacement;    home reconstruction;    subjectivity;    social vulnerability;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.17141/iconos.66.2020.3883

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The following work analyzes the subjective dimension of vulnerability-ability of families that have been displaced by anearthquakeinChile.Aqualitativedesignwasselected,whichincludedatheoreticalsample,tenfemaleheadsofhousehold and three institutional agents linked to the displacement and reconstruction of homes after the disaster. The data is produced by episodic interviews that use coding as an analytical strategy based on the grounded theory. The first result shows differences in the meanings assigned to displacement by the institutions that respond to disasters and the relocated families. At the institutional level, the predominant perspective was one based on instrumental reasoning aboutinhabiting,whichreducedthisconcepttothefacilitationofsurvivalandthemeretopographicaloccupationofaphysical-materialspace.Meanwhile,fortherelocatedfamilies,livinginacampmeantanintensificationofan“experienceofcontinualvulnerability”,whichsignifiedtheywereina“noplace”ofcircumstantialtransit.Aspartof the second results, four family abilities were identified that did not subvert the social and structural vulnerability present but did enable the emergence of four configurations of tactics of agency and resistance in confronting disasters: resignation, individualism, concealment and solidarity. The conclusions highlight the importance of integrating a sub-jective dimension of vulnerability-ability in confronting the process of environmental displacement in order to guide the processes of relocation and psycho-social interventions sustained in a multidimensional perspective of inhabiting.

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