Cultural psychology of coping with disasters [electronic resource] : the case of an earthquake in Java, Indonesia / Manfred Zaumseil, [and 4 others].

Cultural psychology of coping with disasters [electronic resource] : the case of an earthquake in Java, Indonesia / Manfred Zaumseil, [and 4 others].

9781461493549 electronic book
1461493544 electronic book
1461493536
9781461493532

New York : Springer, [2014]

English

1 online resource (xxiii, 356 pages.)

10.1007/978-1-4614-9354-9 doi

RC451.4.D57 C85 2014

616.85/210651

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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