Miracle boats and other wonders: Locating affect in the narratives of recovery and removal of Japanese post-disaster debris

Martini, Annaclaudia; Gasparri, Duccio

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100765

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“…Rituals and commemorative events provide ways for survivors to express grief and reflect on their loss. Indeed, studies of other post‐tsunami contexts, such as in India, Japan, and Sri Lanka, reveal how personal and public acts and objects of memorialisation become intwined with people's efforts to remake their everyday lives (Samuels, 2016; Martini and Gasparri, 2021). Disaster healing, however, can be slow, even intergenerational, with visits to disaster areas or memorial sites being important components of this process (Mika and Kelman, 2020).…”

Section: Understanding Disaster Mobilities Temporalities and Recoverymentioning

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Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives

2023

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Large‐scale disasters are frequently portrayed as temporally bounded, linear events after which survivors are encouraged to ‘move on’ as quickly as possible. In this paper, we explore how understandings of disaster mobilities and temporalities challenge such perspectives. Drawing on empirical research undertaken on Dhuvaafaru in the Maldives, a small island uninhabited until 2009 when it was populated by people displaced by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, we examine what such understandings mean in the context of sudden population displacement followed by prolonged resettlement. The study reveals the diversity of disaster mobilities, how these reflect varied and complex temporalities of past, present, and future, and how processes of disaster recovery are temporally extended, uncertain, and often linger. In addition, the paper shows how attending to these dynamics contributes to understandings of how post‐disaster settlement brings stability for some people while producing ongoing feelings of loss, longing, and unsettlement in others.

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Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives

2023

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“…According to the Miyagi Prefecture Fishery Union's ( kumiai ) 2009-2015 report (MPG 2018), oyster tonnage plummeted from overproduction in 2009 and 2010 (4300 and 3120 tons respectively) to a mere fraction in 2011 (320 tons). With the main sea farming sites—the shallow bays of the rias coast of northern Miyagi—engulfed in debris (Martini and Gasparri 2018) and the coastal infrastructure (workshops, forklifts, boats) destroyed, a significant percentage of fishers either shifted to the construction sector to make a living or left the region. As a result, the quantitative recovery potential of oyster production was severely hindered: data from the kumiai report (MPG 2018) indicate a drop from the over 800 workers employed in oyster sea farming in 2009, to only 200 in 2011, with a slow recovery in 2013-2014 to 480, and subsequent stagnation in 2014 and 2015.…”

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Oyster Tourism in Postdisaster Japan: Towards an Understanding of Human-Mollusk Relations in the Miyagi Prefecture

Gasparri

2019

Journal of Ethnobiology

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This article is a qualitative, ethnographically informed exploration of the relations between the Miyagi Oysters (Crassostrea gigas) and the diverse social actors of northeastern Japan (Tōhoku), namely local sea farmers, domestic immigrants, and tourists, in the aftermath of the 2011 “triple disaster” (the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and related nuclear plant meltdown). I contend that the processes of post-disaster reconstruction have been significantly informed by the specific frames of human-oyster relations as they are developed in the sea farming bays of the municipality of Ishinomaki (Miyagi Prefecture). Individuating four fields of interest (environmental purity, experientiality, emic timeframes, and authenticity), I analyze the ongoing transformations prompted by the disaster on discourses of locality and self-representation and the interactions among local producers and non-local actors (visitors, volunteers, entrepreneurs) with the cycle of life of the Crassostrea. Within the interactions between locals and non-locals, the discursive characteristics of oyster sea farming in Miyagi are negotiated, shared, and contested through instances of transformative resilience during the progressive shift from “classic” modes of production towards the economies of domestic tourism, and the overlapping of local, bottom-up initiatives with organized top-down structures.

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Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice

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2023

Emotion, Space and Society

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Miracle boats and other wonders: Locating affect in the narratives of recovery and removal of Japanese post-disaster debris

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives

Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives

Oyster Tourism in Postdisaster Japan: Towards an Understanding of Human-Mollusk Relations in the Miyagi Prefecture

Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice

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