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3 - The Place–Subjectivity Continuum after a Disaster

Enquiring into the Production of Sense of Place as an Assemblage

from Part I - Climate Change and Ecological Regime Shifts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2021

By
Héctor Berroeta ,
Pinto Laís de Carvalho  and
Jorge Castillo-Sepúlveda
Edited by
Christopher M. Raymond ,
Lynne C. Manzo ,
Daniel R. Williams ,
Andrés Di Masso  and
Timo von Wirth
Christopher M. Raymond
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki, Finland
Lynne C. Manzo
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle
Daniel R. Williams
Affiliation:
USDA Forest Service, Colorado
Andrés Di Masso
Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona
Timo von Wirth
Affiliation:
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
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Summary

In this chapter, we propose a material–semiotic epistemological approach to understand the changing senses of place resulting from socio-environmental disasters. This perspective involves investigating the simultaneously symbolic, corporeal and geographical relations that characterise the production of new senses of place in post-disaster contexts. We propose the notion of assemblage as a conceptual tool to understand how senses of place are generated within a complex and dynamic network of influences and reciprocal variations between subjective, social and spatial aspects, articulating at the same time the relationship between individual experiences of place and social and institutional processes. To present, discuss and illustrate this material–semiotic approach, we draw on a part of the results of a study conducted in Chile, addressing multiple case studies of post-disaster situations.

Keywords

socio-natural disasterscommunityreconstructionplace assemblagesense of placematerial–semioticsubjectivity
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Changing Senses of Place
Navigating Global Challenges
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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