Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments Centemeri Laura

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster.

These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the "what-ness" of a disaster and the paths for recovery.