Women's Voices: Solace and social innovation in the aftermath of the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes

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dc.contributor.authorMcManus, R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-11T23:04:59Z
dc.date.available2017-09-11T23:04:59Z
dc.date.issued2015en
dc.description.abstractThe Canterbury earthquakes and the rebuild are generation-defining events for twenty-first century Aotearoa/ New Zealand. This article uses an actor network approach to explore 32 women’s narratives of being shaken into dangerous disaster situations and reconstituting themselves to cope in socially innovative ways. The women’s stories articulate on-going collective narratives of experiencing disaster and coping with loss in ‘resilient’ ways. In these women’s experiences, coping in disasters is not achieved by talking through the emotional trauma. Instead, coping comes from seeking solace through engagement with one’s own and others’ personal risk and resourcefulness in ways that feed into the emergence of socially innovative voluntary organisations. These stories offer conceptual insight into the multivalent interconnections between resilience and vulnerabilities and the contested nature of post-disaster recovery in Aotearoa/New Zealand. These women gave voice to living through disasters resiliently in ways that forged new networks of support across collective and personal narratives and broader social goals and aspirations for Aotearoa/New Zealand’s future.en
dc.identifier.citationMcManus, R. (2015) Women's Voices: Solace and social innovation in the aftermath of the 2010 Christchurch earthquakes. Women's Studies Journal 29(2):22-41. 2015en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/14403
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciencesen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Sociologyen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropologyen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectdisasteren
dc.subjectnarrativesen
dc.subjectresilienceen
dc.subjectsocial innovationen
dc.subjectsolaceen
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen
dc.subjectwomenen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1608 - Sociologyen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1601 - Anthropology::160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropologyen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170105 - Gender Psychologyen
dc.titleWomen's Voices: Solace and social innovation in the aftermath of the 2010 Christchurch earthquakesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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