Restoration and Loss after Disaster: Applying the Dual Process Model of Coping in Bereavement (2018)
Abstract
The article asks whether disasters that destroy life but leave the material infrastructure relatively intact tend to prompt communal coping focussing on loss, while disasters that destroy significant material infrastructure tend to prompt coping through restoration / re-building. After comparing memorials to New Zealand’s Christchurch earthquake and Pike River mine disasters, we outline circumstances in which collective restorative endeavour may be grassroots, organised from above, or manipulated, along with limits to effective restoration. We conclude that bereavement literature may need to take restoration more seriously, while disaster literature may need to take loss more seriously.
Citation
McManus R, Walter T, Claridge L (2018). Restoration and Loss after Disaster: Applying the Dual Process Model of Coping in Bereavement. Death Studies.This citation is automatically generated and may be unreliable. Use as a guide only.
Keywords
communal loss; earthquake; grief; communitas; volunteersANZSRC Fields of Research
17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170113 - Social and Community Psychology44 - Human society::4410 - Sociology::441016 - Urban sociology and community studies
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