Chapter 10. Re- mooring: Rethinking Recovery and Resilience in the Anthropocene

Vaughan, Tyson

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“…Christchurch's sites of waiting invoke the responsiveness that underlies people's relations to others, things, and the environments that they inhabit. They reveal the fundamental interrelatedness that underpins living in a physical environment, such as a city, invoking what Tyson Vaughan (2021) describes as the 'wishy-washy intangibles' (209) that post-disaster communities often long for and which state-led recovery projects often overlook in a 'single-minded focus on rapidly rebuilding' (202). To dwell in Christchurch's creative sites of waiting allowed people to experience and become aware of human and non-human interdependency, disavowing the relentless drive by the then Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery to deem 'high productivity and export-driven economic growth' as the sole principles that should be used to guide Christchurch's future (Brownlee 2013, 7).3 A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE RESILIENT AND THE mOANER Following the second earthquake, Christchurch was thrown into a state that disaster theorists call 'transient dysfunction' (Norris et al 2008, 132).…”

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To Linger in Post-Earthquake Christchurch: The Responsibility of Waiting

Carter

2023

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Following natural disasters in urban environments, those who remain are left not only to occupy an unfamiliar space but also to experience a painfully drawn out temporality: the time of waiting. A decade after earthquakes struck Christchurch city, some residents are still inhabiting a time of limbo, awaiting decisions on the fate of their homes and businesses. In this paper, I examine various creative projects that appeared in exposed and vacant sites in post-earthquake Christchurch. These projects turned such sites into dwelling spaces in which passers-by are encouraged to hesitate and linger. Such sites thus encourage people to experience the temporality of waiting, but in a different and I argue more enabling way. This paper examines the ethical possibilities that emerge from lingering before such sites. Drawing on the notion that ethics is not so much a normative procedure and more an impetus that opens up the space of the encounter, I argue that when Cantabrians tarry before such sites, they recognise a world which is not constituted by replaceable objects, but, instead, in their responsiveness, they experience a self that is constituted by its immersion in the world. Keywords: natural disaster; waiting; temporality; Christchurch earthquakes; ethical responsiveness

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To Linger in Post-Earthquake Christchurch: The Responsibility of Waiting

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2023

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Chapter 10. Re- mooring: Rethinking Recovery and Resilience in the Anthropocene

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To Linger in Post-Earthquake Christchurch: The Responsibility of Waiting

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