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THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ADAPTATION TO A DISASTER DEGRADED SPACE

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Hajduk-Nijakowska J.

Lud

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2004

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vol. 88

13-40

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Using an anthropological perspective, the authoress analyses the process of adaptation to the immediate space by Polish people hit by the 1997 flood. Places of their residence have been branded with disaster and the feeling of being lost and harmed has been intensified by the awareness of the loss of everything they owned. In order to feel fulfilled in the new situation flood victims had to display an exceptional fortitude and perseverance. It turned out that most of the flood victims worked laboriously to recover their individual space from the time before the flood, to rebuild the feeling of cultural continuity, to reconstruct (or create from scratch) their 'sacred places of their private life'. The adaptation of the degraded space meant also adaptation of the social space, restoration of relations with other people. This condition triggered the natural need to talk, to tell others about the recent experiences, which greatly helped to overcome the trauma caused by the flood, 'slow down' the emotions and start the memory celebration process. She also analyses the situations of the flood victims, who were forced to change their place of residence, who had to settle new, strange spaces, who created a new spatial reality (most often on the periphery of the city) and cooperated in the establishment of a new, local community.

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Positive consequences of the experience of disaster

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Dolinska B.

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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2008

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vol. 39

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issue 3

165-170

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Wroclaw and Opole were the two biggest Polish cities afflicted by the huge flood of 1997. Research conducted 9 months and 3 years after this disaster (Wroclaw and Opole, respectively), compares the opinions of people who lived in (a) flooded areas, (b) places threatened with flooding which avoided the calamity thanks to inhabitants and rescue teams' heroic struggle, and (c) areas under no threat of flooding due to their location. The research analyzed whether the place of residence influenced perceptions of varied advantages which research participants could perceive as consequences of the flood. Quite surprisingly, it turned out that the perception of interpersonal relations was better in places where the inhabitants struggled against the disaster than in those not threatened by the flood.

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ŽIVELNÁ POHROMA AKO MULTIDIMENZIONÁLNY JAV

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Lettrich R.

Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)

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2016

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vol. 23

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issue 2

59 - 79

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The aim of the article is to demonstrate a multi-dimensional character of the social aspect of disaster. The author examines people’s reflections of the events linked to disaster and its impact on the local community that are interpreted in accordance of the theoretical perspective of an American anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith. Disaster is characterized as a specific background, a natural laboratory, where particular forms of social behaviour as well as tensions between social norms and economic interest are highlighted. The author pays attention to search for a guilty party related to disaster, and to the subsequent changes and impacts of the disaster. The data were obtained by means of ethnographic interview and participant observation. The field work was located in a rural area affected by flash flood in 2011. This event significantly changed an environmental situation of the village. The thesis brings ethnographic material contributing to the better understanding a nexus human – environment.

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THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF ADAPTATION TO A DISASTER DEGRADED SPACE

Positive consequences of the experience of disaster

ŽIVELNÁ POHROMA AKO MULTIDIMENZIONÁLNY JAV