Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences, Royal Roads University, 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC V9B 5Y2, Canada.
Am J Community Psychol. 2011 Dec;48(3-4):395-411. doi: 10.1007/s10464-011-9427-0.
In this paper we draw on the findings of a critical, multi-sited ethnographic study of two rural communities affected by a wildfire in British Columbia, Canada to examine the salience of place, identity, and social capital to the disaster recovery process and community disaster resilience. We argue that a reconfiguration of disaster recovery is required that more meaningfully considers the role of place in the disaster recovery process and opens up the space for a more reflective and intentional consideration of the disorientation and disruption associated with disasters and our organized response to that disorientation. We describe a social-psychological process, reorientation, in which affected individuals and communities navigate the psychological, social and emotional responses to the symbolic and material changes to social and geographic place that result from the fire's destruction. The reorientation process emphasizes the critical importance of place not only as an orienting framework in recovery but also as the ground upon which social capital and community disaster resilience are built. This approach to understanding and responding to the disorientation of disasters has implications for community psychologists and other service providers engaged in supporting disaster survivors. This includes the need to consider the complex dynamic of contextual and cultural factors that influence the disaster recovery process.
在本文中，我们借鉴了对加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省两个受野火影响的农村社区进行的批判性、多地点民族志研究的结果，考察了地点、身份和社会资本在灾害恢复过程和社区灾害恢复力中的重要性。我们认为，需要对灾害恢复进行重新配置，更有意义地考虑到地点在灾害恢复过程中的作用，并为更深入地思考与灾害相关的迷失方向和混乱以及我们对这种迷失方向的有组织反应留出空间。我们描述了一个社会心理过程，即重新定位，受影响的个人和社区在心理、社会和情感上应对由于火灾破坏而导致的社会和地理地点的符号和物质变化所带来的影响。重新定位过程强调了地点的重要性，不仅是恢复过程中的定位框架，也是社会资本和社区灾害恢复力建立的基础。这种理解和应对灾害迷失方向的方法对从事支持灾害幸存者工作的社区心理学家和其他服务提供者具有重要意义。这包括需要考虑影响灾害恢复过程的复杂的情境和文化因素的动态。
