Earthquakes And Society: Rethinking And Rebuilding Our Relations With Knowledge
Journal Title: Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 25
Abstract
Studies suggest that social resilience regarding earthquakes has been weak in Turkey due to inefficient long-term measures. Based on a comprehensive review of literature, this paper argues that this weakness relates to the structural characteristics of public sphere, as well as institutions and collective actors interacting within it. These factors affect the content and use of knowledge, which then become a source of social vulnerability in face of earthquakes. Drawing on this argument, the article brings forward a draft agenda and strategy for discussion that may help transform society's relations with knowledge. The proposed model is not based on technology utilization (though it is important), but on coordination between scientific community and civil society organizations because of their distinct positions and roles in generating and disseminating knowledge. The goal is to empower segments of society to put necessary social mechanisms and organizations in place and have them work efficiently. Hence, this article calls for self-reflexivity toward reorganizing the relations between scientific community and other segments of society, which may then help revise socially available knowledge and ways of using it. Discussing such challenging issues in the context of disaster management require uneasy collaborations not only between social and technical experts but also between scientific community and other sectors of civil society, as well as between central and peripheral entities within all the aforementioned.
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Oya Acikalin
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