TY - JOUR
T1 - What's in a name? “Smong” and the sustaining of risk communication and DRR behaviours as evocation fades
AU - Sutten, Stephen
AU - Paton, Douglas
AU - Buergelt, Petra
AU - Mailianda , Ella
AU - Sagala, Saut
N1 - Funding Information:
Assistance from Dr Ella Meilianda and Dr Khairul Munardi and their colleagues at the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Centre at Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, made the project possible and is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks also to Kate Van Wezel for her gracious assistance with translation. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and improvements recommended by anonymous reviewers. This research was funded through an Australian Postgraduate Research Award and a Bushfire & Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Centre scholarship as well as research funding from Charles Darwin University . APPENDIX 1
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - There are familiar patterns in the ways individuals and society process disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR) needs as the memory of a disaster fades. Affect is strongest immediately after the event. However, typically, for most people the memory of, and the negative emotions associated with a disaster event, increasingly fade with time, even while the actual memory of the event remains. While the fading of memories and emotions represents a mechanism for maintaining psychological wellbeing, forgetting disasters may have negative implications for DRR. As time passes, the decrease in the intensity of feelings is matched by a decrease in intensity of efforts to prepare for future disasters. This association is reflected in the intensity of reconstruction activity as well as the degree to which society focusses effort on continuing DRR programs. This process has been defied in Pulau Simeulue in Aceh Province. This island is well recognized as an exemplar of community-based risk communication and DRR activity as a result of managing maintaining the collective memory of ‘smong’ - the local Simeulue word for the earthquake/tsunami phenomenon - for 100 years. Using the findings from a grounded theory study, this paper examines the importance of having a specific word for natural hazard to successful DRR and what might be learned from the example of Simeulue.
AB - There are familiar patterns in the ways individuals and society process disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR) needs as the memory of a disaster fades. Affect is strongest immediately after the event. However, typically, for most people the memory of, and the negative emotions associated with a disaster event, increasingly fade with time, even while the actual memory of the event remains. While the fading of memories and emotions represents a mechanism for maintaining psychological wellbeing, forgetting disasters may have negative implications for DRR. As time passes, the decrease in the intensity of feelings is matched by a decrease in intensity of efforts to prepare for future disasters. This association is reflected in the intensity of reconstruction activity as well as the degree to which society focusses effort on continuing DRR programs. This process has been defied in Pulau Simeulue in Aceh Province. This island is well recognized as an exemplar of community-based risk communication and DRR activity as a result of managing maintaining the collective memory of ‘smong’ - the local Simeulue word for the earthquake/tsunami phenomenon - for 100 years. Using the findings from a grounded theory study, this paper examines the importance of having a specific word for natural hazard to successful DRR and what might be learned from the example of Simeulue.
KW - Disaster risk reduction
KW - community-based risk communication
KW - indonesia
KW - song
KW - grounded theory
KW - natural hazards
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075916724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/whats-name-smong-sustaining-risk-communication-drr-behaviours-evocation-fades
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101408
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101408
M3 - Article
VL - 44
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
SN - 2212-4209
M1 - 101408
ER -