Disaster, Place, and Justice: Experiencing the Disruption of Shock Events

Schlosberg, David; Bosca, Hannah Della; Craven, Luke

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0466-2_13

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“…The social implications of nature-society disruption are typically examined in terms of social upheaval, displacement, conflict, material deprivation, and the loss of safety nets, within historically uneven forms of development (see Lunstrum and Bose, 2022). However, as we observed earlier, the extreme uncertainty and insecurity associated with rupture is also deeply affective or emotional (Schlosberg et al, 2020). Scholars are still at a relatively early stage in understanding the scope and character of this subjective dimension of rupture, which is why we make it our focus here.…”

Section: Emotional Responses To Injustice and Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 91%

“…They cite an imbalance between those who contribute most to this situation and those who bear the consequences (Lunstrum and Bose, 2022;Marino and Ribot, 2012;Porter et al, 2020;Sultana, 2021). Recent work adds that nature-society disruptions are experienced in deeply affective and emotional ways (Albrecht, 2019;Clark, 2020;Head, 2016;Schlosberg et al, 2020). Others find new opportunities for connection with the more-than-human world and beneficial transformations (Armiero and De Angelis, 2017;Gan et al, 2017;Haraway, 2016;Swanson et al, 2017;Wright et al, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Mahanty

Milne

Barney

et al. 2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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We are currently seeing a global escalation in social and environmental disruption, yet concepts like the Anthropocene do not fully capture the intensity and generative scope of this crisis. ‘Rupture’ is being used as a term for specific and intense episodes of change, such as wildfires or toxic pollution releases. This is a useful addition to our lexicon for nature-society change but needs to be more robustly theorized. Defining rupture as an intense and adverse episode of nature-society disruption that ripples across scales, we elaborate four dimensions that account for rupture's sources and uncertain effects. The first two dimensions consider how rupture emerges in space and time from: (i) synergistic spatial, material, and socio-natural changes across scales; and (ii) the accumulation of slow violence that builds towards and is exposed by punctuated shifts and crisis moments. The second two dimensions consider the outcomes of rupture, namely: (iii) heightened uncertainty, insecurity, and socio-material deprivation, which are experienced in unequal and deeply affective ways; and (iv) the scope to catalyze diverse forms of agency that play out in uncertain ways. To illustrate our discussion, we draw from our long history of research on hydropower landscapes in the Mekong region.

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Section: Emotional Responses To Injustice and Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Mahanty

Milne

Barney

et al. 2023

Dialogues in Human Geography

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“…As many extreme weather events do, heatwaves lay bare the inequalities already present in our societies, such that individuals and communities already relatively disadvantaged in terms of wealth, health, and privilege are likely to experience the greatest disruption, instability, and harm as a result of climate change impacts (see Bolitho and Miller, 2017;Gibson et al, 2020;Pachauri et al, 2014). It is clear that the systemic, invisible, and intangible disruptions of extreme events have the capacity to radically destabilise communities over time (Della Bosca et al, 2020;Schlosberg et al, 2020). A close examination of heatwave impacts thus requires close attention to what it means to be exposed to intersecting and invisible threats, suggesting a need for more nuanced engagement with the heated body and attendant coping mechanisms.…”

Section: Heatwavesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial

Bosca

2023

Environ Plan D

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This paper argues that sensory practices that insulate individual bodies from the effects of climate disruption may enable and perpetuate a distinct form of climate change denial. Existing scholarship has established the ways in which climate-modifying technologies, such as air conditioning, reconfigure socio-ecological relationships through sensory norms. This paper extends this analysis by relating these sensory norms to contemporary discourses on climate denial. Drawing on a heatwave case study in Western Sydney, Australia, the paper explores how practices of thermal comfort for particular, often privileged, bodies may be understood as sensory enablers of climate change denial. This work encourages theoretical movement beyond the scientific and political disembodiment that often characterises contemporary climate change denial discourse, and urges greater attention to the sensory drivers of climate-related behaviours, experiences, and perceptions. This sensory approach may allow theoretical and strategic engagement with otherwise hidden social barriers to sustainable climate interventions and action.

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“…Prior research found that COVID-19 pandemic disrupted place attachment (Counted et al, 2021), namely the emotional bond that people establish with certain places (Lewicka, 2011;Ramkissoon, 2020). Research also stressed that several emergency situations, like earthquakes and floods, might threaten the sense of belonging to a place (Carroll et al, 2008;Marshall et al, 2019;Schlosberg et al, 2020). Nonetheless, technology-based solutions to address these "spatial issues" are still scarce.…”

Section: Enabling the Ascription Of Meaning To Virtual Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Playing during a crisis: The impact of commercial video games on the reconfiguration of people’s life during the COVID-19 pandemic

Boldi

Rapp²,

Tirassa

2022

Human–Computer Interaction

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to dramatic changes in people's lives. The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community widely investigated technology use during crises. However, commercial video games received minor attention. In this article, we describe how video game play impacted the life transformations engendered by the pandemic. We administered a qualitative online survey to 330 video game players who were living in Italy during the lockdown measures. We found that the COVID-19 pandemic altered the participants' sense of time and space, reshaped both their intimate and wider social interactions, and elicited a wide spectrum of disturbing emotions. Players escaped from this unsatisfying reality into video game worlds, searching for a new normality that could compensate for the unpredictability and dangerousness of the pandemic life, as well as seeking uncertainty in the game environments to balance the flatness of the lockdown everydayness. In doing so, they "appropriated" the gaming technologies, which also led to several unexpected outcomes. Starting from these findings, we propose a model of escapism that points out four ways to escape from reality into video game worlds. Moreover, we outline some design implications that might inspire future strands of research in the field of crisis technologies.

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Disaster, Place, and Justice: Experiencing the Disruption of Shock Events

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Rupture: Towards a critical, emplaced, and experiential view of nature-society crisis

Comfort in chaos: A sensory account of climate change denial

Playing during a crisis: The impact of commercial video games on the reconfiguration of people’s life during the COVID-19 pandemic

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