Cultural psychology of coping with disasters [electronic resource] : the case of an earthquake in Java, Indonesia / Manfred Zaumseil, [and 4 others].
Zaumseil, Manfred, editor of compilation.
2014
RC451.4.D57 C85 2014
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Title Cultural psychology of coping with disasters [electronic resource] : the case of an earthquake in Java, Indonesia / Manfred Zaumseil, [and 4 others].
ISBN 9781461493549 electronic book
1461493544 electronic book
1461493536
9781461493532
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9354-9
Published New York : Springer, [2014]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 356 pages.)
Item Number 10.1007/978-1-4614-9354-9 doi
Call Number RC451.4.D57 C85 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.85/210651
Summary As the interdependence between human activities and natural forces on earth grows in instability, disaster research is maturing as a discipline, employing concepts and methods from fields as disparate as psychology, history, and engineering. But psychological studies have mainly focused on post-disaster pathology or standard themes of coping, rarely taking cultural factors into consideration. Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters addresses this omission with an innovative framework for studying culture-specific concepts of vulnerability and local forms of resilience. Expert contributors both build on and transcend traditional clinical ideas to analyze four distinct dimensions of coping: material, social, life conduct, and religious. Extensive findings on the 2006 Java earthquake illustrate both concepts and methods in real-world detail. And a chapter on villagers' visions of their future ably demonstrates the balance between the personal and the collective in coping. Included in the coverage: Methodological basis of a culture-specific coping approach. Research ethics: between formal norms and intentions. Suffering, healing, and the discourse of trauma. Disaster aid distribution and social conflicts. Critical perspectives on gender mainstreaming in disaster contexts. Plus a multidimensional framework for analyzing the coping process. A truly transdisciplinary work, Cultural Psychology of Coping with Disasters lends itself to a wide range of professional, academic, and research domains, among them disaster psychology, disaster management/aid, cultural psychology, anthropology, public policy, and public health.
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Part I. Theoretical Overview and Synthesis
Part II. Context, Method, and Reflexive Commentaries on the Case Study
Part III. Multidimensional Coping Framework
Part IV. Specific Aspects of Coping
Part V. Conclusion.

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