NR AXWO
AU Smart,J.; Smart,A.
TI Learning from disasters: Temporality in repeated crises and BSE coping resilience in Canada.
QU International Conference - Prion 2007 (26.-28.9.2007) Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Book of Abstracts: Epidemiology, Risk Assessment and Transmission P04.47
IA http://www.prion2007.com/pdf/Prion Book of Abstracts.pdf
PT Konferenz-Poster
AB The majority of disaster research either concentrates on a particular extreme event, or addresses a category of disaster more generally. The former research projects tend to emphasize the effects of a disaster in a specific time and place and impacting on a particular population of people. The latter kind of research is more likely to aspire to generalizations, and is likely to emphasize the appropriate policies that should be implemented to avoid negative impacts from that kind of extreme event (e.g. building code revisions for earthquake-prone areas, prohibiting rebuilding in flood plains). Both kinds of research are obviously of great importance, but we would like to suggest another approach to disaster research that is less common, at least in explicit terms. Using the BSE outbreak in Canada (May 2003-) as a focus, we will argue that we can learn a great deal by looking at series of related disasters or crisis in Canada and worldwide in order to explore how institutional responses and individual resilience are influenced by the sequence. Garcia-Acosta (2002:49) has suggested that the mainstream of disaster studies tends to be "ahistorical and even antihistorical". We believe that this needs to be changed, that experiences and perceptions of past related events may have a major impact on later responses. The data for this paper is based on extensive document analysis (government reports, other publications, media coverage) and primary data collected from ethnographic interviews conducted in 2006 and 2007 in Alberta, Canada.
AD J. Smart, A. Smart, University of Calgary, Canada
SP englisch
PO Schottland