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Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective: between theory and practice

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The chapter clarifies how the approach to the study of post-disaster situations based on the exploration of multiple and diverse repairing processes is propitious to a cross-fertilization between disaster studies and current theoretical debates in social sciences. This dialogue is essential, on the one hand, to allow a better understanding of disasters as expression of multiple systemic crises, including climate change, financial instabilities and the crisis of democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, these debates can feed the ‘sociological imagination’ of the field of disaster studies and contribute to developing the inclusive potential of policies aimed at supporting collective capacities of prevention, preparedness and response to disasters. In return, the dialogue between disaster studies and the theoretical perspectives currently developed in social sciences can help to clarify and test the operability of approaches otherwise condemned to remain just a paper exercise. In particular, the authors discuss the articulation of the reparative perspective with the systemic perspective that focuses on the interconnectedness of disasters, economic interests, globalization, financialization and the ongoing dynamics of colonialism. In the final section, building on the debate about how to transform urban planning to meet climate change challenges, the authors discuss the perspective of design activism against ‘defuturing’ as a way to renew the understanding of recovery.
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hal-03364674 , version 1 (04-10-2021)

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Laura Centemeri, J Peter Burgess, Sezin Topçu. Conclusion: Disaster recovery and the repairing perspective: between theory and practice. Routledge. Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery. Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments. Sous la direction de Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu et J.Peter Burgess, Routledge, pp.222-232, 2022. ⟨hal-03364674⟩

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