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This book presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies, political science, disaster planning and human geography.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction. Placemaking in Displacement: Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Session I. Learning as place-making in displacement Chapter 2. Schools as community assets for placemaking in post-disaster resettlement: Reciprocal impacts of housing and education recovery in Tacloban, Philippines
; Chapter 3. Collaborating Across Borders: Placemaking and Local Climate Adaptation in Rural Nepal and the Philippines
; Chapter 4. Making place for Indigenous Learning in Displacement: Cultivating Land Wisdom in Recovery in Southern Taiwan
Session II. Gendering place-making in response to displacement Chapter 5. More than mushrooms: Local food culture and place making after "Fukushima"
; Chapter 6. Where are the women's voices? A Case study of Otsuchi Town after the Great East Japan Earthquake
; Chapter 7. Displacement as unfolding spatial and gender politics: A Case Study of Indigenous Women's Participation in Place-Making in Rinari
Session III. Community Resilience and Indigenous Sense of Place Chapter 8. The real tsunami in North Pagai: Indigenous survivors living between old and new settlements after the 2010 Mentawai disaster
; Chapter 9. Resilience to Disaster-driven Relocation Through Paiwan Inheritance Culture after Typhoon Morakot: the Laiyi case in Taiwan
; Chapter 10. Finding Culture Through Agriculture: Rukai Communities at a Post-disaster Recovery Site in Southern Taiwan
Session IV Community (Re)building in Post-tsunami Relocation Chapter 11. Diversification of Meanings of the Disaster-Stricken Area of Arahama: Towards a Recovery by the "Design of Meanings"
; Chapter 12. Making a Community Around a Table: Reconstruction of Mutual Help System by Tea Parties (Ocha-kai) and Lunch Parties After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake
; Chapter 13. Re-starting Traditional Events After Small-scale Community Relocation Post-tsunami in Toyoma Village
Session V. Transnational Placemaking from Bottom-up: Talk to the Actors (Transcribed/edited by Shu-Mei Huang, Elizabeth Maly, Yu- Yu-Hsin Chang) Chapter 14. Community/place-making in Otsuchi: A conversation with
Mio Kamitani; Chapter 15. Transnational collaboration in the Pacific Rim: A conversation with
Robert Olshansky, Ikuo Kobayashi, and Liang-Chun Chen; Chapter 16. Teaching and practicing in the Tohoku region: A conversation with
Yasuaki Onoda; Index
About the author
Shu-Mei Huang is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
Elizabeth Maly is Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan.
