Doctoral Candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
Disasters. 2022 Jan;46(1):271-295. doi: 10.1111/disa.12461. Epub 2021 Jul 30.
This paper spotlights post-disaster relief provision in Johannesburg, South Africa, following the floods of 2016 in a bid to explore how local government and non-governmental actors in the country conceive of compounding vulnerability and conflict within urban disaster governance. It reveals the diverse strategies employed to navigate violent conflict during the cyclical occurrence of disaster and reconstruction that the predominantly migrant population experiences in the Setswetla informal settlement, adjacent to the Alexandra township in northern Johannesburg. Rendered visible in moments of disaster and recovery are the spatial politics and multidimensional nature of conflict. These phenomena unfold across various levels of urban governance and in the affected community and effectively construct a disaster citizenship that makes risk reduction and community cohesion impossible in the eyes of disaster managers. This research, based on a set of expert interviews, integrates conflict and disaster studies to shed light on how the conflict-disaster interface materialises, and is operationalised, in an urban setting.
本文聚焦于南非约翰内斯堡 2016 年洪灾后的救灾工作，旨在探讨该国地方政府和非政府行为者如何理解城市灾害治理中复合脆弱性和冲突的问题。本文揭示了在周期性发生灾害和重建过程中，为应对主要是移民人口在约翰内斯堡北部亚历山大镇附近的塞茨韦泰拉非正规住区所经历的暴力冲突，所采用的多样化策略。在灾害和恢复过程中显现出来的是空间政治和冲突的多维性质。这些现象在不同层次的城市治理以及受灾社区中展开，有效地构建了一种灾害公民身份，使得灾害管理者认为减少风险和增强社区凝聚力是不可能的。本研究基于一系列专家访谈，融合了冲突与灾害研究，揭示了冲突-灾害界面如何在城市环境中显现和运作。
