Data, Disasters, and Space-Time Entanglements

• 作者: Eija Meril?inen Mirka Koro
• 来源期刊: 国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: ARTICLES
• 页码范围: 157-168
• 页数: 12页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Disasters connected to natural hazards can at the same time be unfolding events, as well as structural phe-nomena with unequal disaster risk constructed over an extended timespan. Hence, in disaster studies, temporality and spatiality are central, yet often implicit, concepts employed to make sense of the disaster phenomena. In this article we explicitly focus on temporality and spatiality within qualitative disaster studies, particularly those con-taining ethnographic elements. We use Doreen Massey's idea of space-time trajectories to analyze and illustrate how in qualitative disaster studies the trajectories of the disaster, research participants, and the researcher entangle in diverse ways. The focus is on how temporality and spatiality are present in the construction of data. The article is mainly conceptual, with illustrations drawn from empirical field-work on Valparaíso fire of 2014 in Chile. We interrogate how researchers' sensitivity to temporality and spatiality challenges the conventional notions and practices of"data" in qualitative disaster studies. The focus in this article is on disaster studies, but it also offers method-ological insights to other social sciences that strive to conduct research in the era of"Anthropocene," with all its shifts and changes, the root causes of which have built over a long time.