Cultural issues in post‐disaster reconstruction: the case of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan

Lin, Jen-Jen; Lin, Wei

doi:10.1111/disa.12172

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“…There was no adequate interim housing provided to accommodate the waiting and planning process, while the displaces were crowding in the shelters because the MPDR Council thought it would be more efficient to provide ''permanent housing'' in one shot. The reconstruction was carried out without taking into account cultural issues either (Lin and Lin, 2016). Moreover, there was a lack of reflection on changing human-nature relations.…”

Section: Recovery Policy After Typhoon Morakotmentioning

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Understanding disaster (in)justice: Spatializing the production of vulnerabilities of indigenous people in Taiwan

Huang

2018

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Existing disaster studies scholarship tends to uncritically privilege official institutional responses to disasters over bottom-up, community-based reactions and adaptations in the longer term. Meanwhile, the state-recognized disasters mostly exclude socioeconomic and environmental contradictions that generate disasters by making people vulnerable in the first place. Discussion of disaster justice, then, is limited to the immediate state responses to understanding disasters as natural episodes, often incorporating distributive justice into its policy responses. A more spatialized understanding of disaster justice should move beyond these dual limitations-constraints in defining disasters as isolated episodes and in planning for recovery as only emergency responses-and pay attention to the socio-spatial production of risk. This approach would better attend to underlying societal vulnerabilities created through urbanization, in this case, of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan. A spatialized understanding of disaster justice guides this research to attend to both the reoccurring displacements of indigenous people from where their socioeconomic-ecological relations were embedded and the systematic production of risk that has been reinforced and exacerbated by inadequate land use planning. Based on a study of two indigenous groups in Southern Taiwan, Kucapungane and Makazayazaya, this paper explains disaster justice from the indigenous context wrought by multiple expropriations and displacements from the 1930s onwards. This paper plans to do two things: First, it will investigate bottom-up responses to a series of historical disaster-driven migration/ urbanization through theories of community resilience. Secondly, it will expand understanding of ''disasters'' by taking into account the state-led relocation projects as human-made disasters and examine how they have contributed to the vulnerability of the indigenous communities under climate change. It will contribute to a better understanding of disaster justice that overcomes the dual limitations and opens up opportunities for alternative research and practices.

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Section: Recovery Policy After Typhoon Morakotmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding disaster (in)justice: Spatializing the production of vulnerabilities of indigenous people in Taiwan

Huang

2018

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…The post-Morakot recovery and resettlement process has acted as a form of deep colonising 3 for many affected Indigenous communities (Hsu, 2016). Dissatisfaction and dissent amongst affected residents were further exacerbated by a range of issues, including insufficient housing, lack of consensus-building procedures and inadequate employment generating projects (Lin and Lin, 2016). Responsibility for recovery, resettlement and community building was outsourced to external institutions that were less accountable to local values and experience, and unfamiliar with the local sociality of affected communities (Hsu et al, 2015).…”

Section: Indigenous Taiwan: Disaster Recovery As Deep Colonisingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such unfamiliarity with and oversimplification of circumstances led to pervasive conflict regarding the relocation policy and reconstruction of communities after Morakot. Dissatisfaction and dissent amongst affected residents were further exacerbated by a range of issues, including insufficient housing, lack of consensus-building procedures and inadequate employment generating projects (Lin and Lin, 2016).…”

Section: Indigenous Taiwan: Disaster Recovery As Deep Colonisingmentioning

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Resettling, disconnecting or displacing? Attending to local sociality, culture and history in disaster settings

Hsu

Okada

Mori

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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In many disaster settings, top-down responses emphasise 'expert-led' solutions that often involve relocating disaster-affected communities. While the intention might be to move people from harm's way and facilitate recovery, failure to attend to local pre-disaster circumstances as well as the interplay between power, resilience and vulnerability within and around affected communities often sees resettlement reconfigure as displacement or disconnection. This oversight may even usher in a new phase of dispossession and disadvantage for marginalised groups (particularly in colonial settings). This paper explores experiences in Australia, Japan and Taiwan to reflect on what issues of local sociality, local culture and local resilience need to be attended to in framing 'better' disaster responses.

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“…Typhoon Morakot, which struck central and southern Taiwan in August 2009, is perhaps most exemplary of the destructive effects of climate change on Indigenous and rural communities to date [27]. The typhoon killed 699 people, destroyed 1766 houses, and displaced 4500 residents [28,29]. After this national tragedy, numerous studies were undertaken to investigate the effect of climate change on Taiwan's Indigenous peoples, and relevant articles have been published through both domestic and international publishing outlets.…”

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Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

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In recent years, the subject of Indigenous peoples and global climate change adaptation has become a rapidly growing area of international study. Despite this trend, Taiwan, home to many Indigenous communities, has received relatively little attention. To date, no comprehensive review of the literature on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and global climate change has been conducted. Therefore, this article presents a bibliometric analysis and literature review of both domestic and international studies on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples in relation to resilience, climate change, and climate shocks in the 10-year period after Typhoon Morakot (2009). We identified 111 domestic and international peer-reviewed articles and analyzed their presentation of the current state of knowledge, geographical and temporal characteristics, and Indigenous representation. Most studies were discovered to focus on post-disaster recovery, particularly within the context of Typhoon Morakot, as well as Indigenous cultures, ecological wisdom, and community development. This study also discovered relatively few studies investigating how traditional ecological knowledge systems can be integrated into climate change adaptation. Most studies also adopted a somewhat narrow focus on Indigenous resilience. Large-scale quantitative and longitudinal studies are found to be in their infancy. We observed a geographical skewness among the studies in favor of southern Taiwan and relatively limited engagement with contemporary studies on Indigenous peoples and climate change. We furthermore determined a large overlap between the destruction path of Morakot and study sites in the articles. Indigenous scholars have managed to find a voice among domestic and international outlets, and an increasing number of scholars have argued for more culturally sensitive approaches to post-disaster recovery and disaster management in Taiwan.

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Cultural issues in post‐disaster reconstruction: the case of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan

Cited by 33 publications

References 11 publications

Understanding disaster (in)justice: Spatializing the production of vulnerabilities of indigenous people in Taiwan

Understanding disaster (in)justice: Spatializing the production of vulnerabilities of indigenous people in Taiwan

Resettling, disconnecting or displacing? Attending to local sociality, culture and history in disaster settings

Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

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