Disaster and Utopia: Looking Back at 3/11

Morris-Suzuki, Teresa

doi:10.1080/10371397.2017.1350920

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“…Beyond the initial burst of compassion, often referred to as a "post-disaster utopia" that characterizes immediate and visible helping behaviors (Fritz, 1961;Morris-Suzuki, 2017), prosocial behavior in the longer-term progression of the pandemic is of particular interest.…”

Section: Staying Far To Remain Close: Reinventing Prosocial Behavior In the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

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The Emergency of Prosociality: a developmental perspective on altruism and human prosocial behavior in the face of disaster

Rose¹,

Dezecache²,

Powell³

et al. 2021

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No two emergency situations are the same. A combination of human and contextual factors makes each emergency and disaster event unique in its timeline, its aftermath, and especially its impact on affected populations. Common to these situations, however, is a demonstration of prosocial behavior intended to benefit other victims. Can shared features of emergencies, viewed through the lens of evolutionary, cognitive, developmental and social psychology shed light on these prosocial and altruistic actions? In this narrative review, we survey the onset of prosociality and altruistic behavior in typical human development, and we focus on how it is expressed in emergency situations. We consider how prosociality shifts and adapts in the specific context of a pandemic. Finally, we suggest that a multidisciplinary research approach may help overcome methodological limitations and achieve more comprehensive understanding of prosociality’s underlying mechanisms in emergency contexts.

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Section: Staying Far To Remain Close: Reinventing Prosocial Behavior In the Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergency of Prosociality: a developmental perspective on altruism and human prosocial behavior in the face of disaster

Rose¹,

Dezecache²,

Powell³

et al. 2021

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“…New debates about the future opened up across multiple sites in society. While the national leadership was calling for the re-discovering of national strengths, peaceful coexistence, and harmony for the twenty-first century, reminiscent of the golden years of Japan's economic success, the grassroots movements, local activists, and increasingly the disaster victims themselves, were calling for actions to challenge the conventional order and contesting the visions of the national neo-conservative regime (Morris-Suzuki 2017;Shaw 2017;Brown and Mackie 2015). While seemingly in contrast with one another, the imagined outcomes of the recovery process were nonetheless remarkably similar across the different visions that were debated.…”

Section: Sociological Imagining and The Proliferation Of Optimismmentioning

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Designated Spaces for Designated Imaginaries: The Cruel Optimism of Citizen Participation in Post-disaster State-citizen Dialogues

Vainio¹

2020

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Environmental disturbances, pandemics, or social crises often lead to the emergence of ‘heterotopian’ spaces (Foucault 1998; Boano 2011), that give rise to emergent debates on alternative imaginations of the future, even utopianism (Solnit 2010). At the same time, modern governance increasingly emphasises the active participation of citizens in processes where these alternative imaginations are turned into actionable plans (Bherer et al. 2016). In particular, the intensity of development needs in post-crisis contexts (Olshansky et al. 2012) can see the prolific spread of participatory spaces designated to facilitate dialogue between authorities and citizens. From creative workshops to citizen committees, however, the results and experiences of citizen participation in these ‘designated spaces’ have remained consistently inconsistent (Davidson et al. 2007; Curato 2018; Cleaver 2001). Drawing on ethnographic research carried out in 2015 and 2016 among individuals who took part in spaces of state-citizen dialogue after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, this paper contributes to critical debates on participatory governance by examining the non-critical acceptance of citizen participation as a universal social ‘good’. The paper focuses on the paradoxically high degrees of optimism and voicelessness reported by disaster victims in Tōhoku, arguing that this paradox reflects the wider patterning of dialogue and governance as a form of ‘cruel optimism’ (Berlant 2011), where the optimism represents just another form of voicelessness. The paper concludes that to overcome the ‘cruelty’, more focus needs to be paid on improving the process through which the content of dialogues is determined and shaped together with the citizens in the participatory spaces, rather than used as venues for promising a better future.

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Hierarchies of affectedness: Kizuna, perceptions of loss, and social dynamics in post-3.11 Japan

Gerster

2019

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Disaster and Utopia: Looking Back at 3/11

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

The Emergency of Prosociality: a developmental perspective on altruism and human prosocial behavior in the face of disaster

The Emergency of Prosociality: a developmental perspective on altruism and human prosocial behavior in the face of disaster

Designated Spaces for Designated Imaginaries: The Cruel Optimism of Citizen Participation in Post-disaster State-citizen Dialogues

Hierarchies of affectedness: Kizuna, perceptions of loss, and social dynamics in post-3.11 Japan

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