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  • 标题:The production of vulnerability to landslides: the risk habitus in two landslide-prone neighborhoods in Teziutlán, Mexico
  • 作者:Bertha Hernández Aguilar ; Naxhelli Ruiz Rivera
  • 期刊名称:Investigaciones Geográficas (Mx)
  • 印刷版ISSN:0188-4611
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 期号:90
  • 页码:7-27
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • 摘要:This paper analyzes the social conditions that produce vulnerability to landslides in two neighborhoods of Teziutlán, Puebla. The goal is to elicit the logic of action that influences vulnerability of these communities, using the concept of risk habitus derived from Bourdieu’s theoretical perspective. This framework provides an analytic framework to understand the social logic and every day decision-making processes that relate to risk perceptions and responses of the residents of these landslide-prone settlements. The methods involved the quantitative interpretation of linkages among variables related to residents’ social, cultural and symbolic capitals, which were collected through two complementary surveys. The selected variables focused on previous disaster experiences and social learning, as well as cooperation networks assessment (solidarity between neighbors, trust in local authorities, experience with disaster situations, perception of risk and attachment to place) in each community. The findings show that individuals’ judgments of their own vulnerability are based on their perceptions of preparedness to face a risk situation; it does not matter the actual hazard level to which they are exposed. This relates to their high level of trust in local authorities and the belief that these authorities will help them in a disaster situation. On the other hand, both neighborhoods are certain about suffering future damages in similar conditions than previous disaster events, even though they have very different objective levels of hazard exposure. In both cases, they strongly believe in their capacity or respond to a landslide, despite that neither of them has invested time or resources in preparedness.
  • 关键词:Risk habitus; social capital; vulnerability; landslide hazards; risk production. Habitus de riesgo; capital social; vulnerabilidad; deslizamientos de ladera;...
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