1st Edition
Micro Human Efforts in Disaster Rebuilding Cultural and Contextual Lessons for Resilience
1. Micro Human Efforts in Disaster Resiliency: Introduction
Chamila (Don) Subasinghe and Sanjoy Mazumdar
Section One: Emerging Insights from Innate Human Improvisations
2. Micro-responses to Disasters: The Roles of Ritual
Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern
3. Mismatched manifestations: lessons from user-initiated changes to architect-designed post-tsunami rehousing in coastal Sri Lanka
Kapila D. Silva, Chamila (Don) Subasinghe and Barry Ballinger
4. Micro Human Efforts in Disaster Resilience: Incentives and Disincentives
Zhila Pooyan and Akihiko Hokugo
Section Two: Rethinking Inclusive Redevelopments as a Rebuilding Process
5. Elderly Women and Community Resilience
Nilgün Okay and Ebru Inal Önal
Section Three: Understanding 'Self-Work/Labour/Action' Coping Concepts
6. Community resilience and micro human acts: Recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Ken Tsubouchi, Ryosuke Tomiyasu, Teruyuki Isagawa and Shiori Suzawa
7. Building New Community in the Emergency Temporary Housing: Focusing on Women’s Group Activities
Mitoko Nakashima
Section Four: Synthesizing Isolated/Interrelated 'Self-Work/Labour/Action' for Socioeconomic Outcomes
8. Enhancing Micro-Human Efforts through Livelihood Assistance for Women in Post-Disaster Recovery in Sri Lanka
Yamuna Kaluarachchi, Menaha Thayaparan and A.P.K.D. Mendis
9. The Creation of Self-resiliency Through Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Kevin Kupietz
10. Self-Governance as Agency in Post-Disaster Recovery
Richard Oloruntoba and Winifred Asare-Doku
11. Conclusion
Sanjoy Mazumdar and Chamila (Don) Subasinghe
Biography
Chamila (Don) Subasinghe's interest in circumnavigating micro aspects of disasters focuses on building resilience within. A chartered architect by profession, his academic career began upon receiving a principal Fulbright scholarship to the USA in 2006 and his PhD in 2011, which he completed with Tau Sigma Delta honours awarded to academics with the highest scholastic standing in architecture and allied disciplines. An alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School's executive training in Public Leadership, Don currently leads the degree apprenticeship programme at Grenfell Bains Institute of Architecture at University of Lancashire, UK. This is his third book on micro-related concepts among many publications, awards, and grants, including the UNESCO-KNUH chair grant. He is also a senior fellow of Higher Education Academy UK and a fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
Sanjoy Mazumdar's emic up-close and micro-ecological research is in cultures and their planned and designed environments, including attempts to apprehend the efforts by disaster victims to rebuild life in post-disaster temporary housing. These and research on culture, religion, ecology, and sustainability have led to publications in 24 journals and many books. Academic training includes a B.Arch. (Hons.), (IITKharagpur), M.Arch.A.S., M.C.P., Ph.D. (MIT). He has been on the editorial boards of several journals and was awarded the Environmental Design Research Association's Career Award (2006), JSPS Invitation Fellowship, elected Fellow of the Design Research Society, Chair of EDRA (1999-2000), and of Cultural Aspects of Design Network. He is a professor emeritus in the School of Social Ecology, Religious Studies, and Asian-American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
