2013 年 6 月 17 日

XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology
13-19 July 2013 at Yokohama
Disaster と Nuclear Power 関係の Sessions and Panels: 27
全部拾えていない可能性があります（とくに RC39）ので、御参考まで。
ISA のウェブサイトから抜粋したので、タイプミスと思われるものもそのままにしています（スペースのみ調整）。
詳細は、http://www.isa-sociology.org/congress2014/#
On-line abstracts 提出期間： June 3, 2013, 11:00 GMT - September 30, 2013 24:00 GMT.
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要旨は 300 語、キーワードは 4 語以内
Organizer による採択期間（口頭報告、配布報告など）：10 月 4 日～11 月 24 日
当該セッションには適合しないが、要旨が興味深い場合は、各 RC の Program Coordinator を介して、他のセッションの候補となることがある。
採択の結果の連絡：11 月 30 日
Panels の場合に、報告者が既に決まっているかどうかは organizer に直接問い合わされるのが良いと思います。
海外からの申請者を含めて、幅広く採択する傾向があるので、organizer が日本人かどうかはそれほど気になさらないのが良いかと思います。
報告の申込の際には、ISA あるいは該当する RC のメンバーである必要はありませんが、採択された場合は、2014 年
4 月 1 日までに大会参加の登録をする必要があります。ISA は、報告者に ISA の会員になることならびに報告する RCの会員になることを義務付けてはいません。ただし、多くの RC は、報告者は少なくとも RC の会員になること（4 年分の会費の一括納入など）を義務付け、RC によっては ISA の会員になることを義務付けているところもあります。

Research Committee on Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution,
RC01 （1 session）
The 3.11 East-Japan Great Earthquake and Fukushima: Lessons Learned from International
Disaster Relief Operations
Session Organizer
Hitoshi KAWANO, National Defense Academy, Japan, hkawano.mail@gmail.com

Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development,
RC21 （1）Theme III.3 Disasters, Risks and Civil Society: A Comparative View of Urban
Resilience Strategies
Session Organizers
Kaoru ENDO, Gakushuin University, Japan, kaoru.endo@gakushuin.ac.jp
Hideo NAKAZAWA, Chuo University, Japan, nakazawa@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp

Research Committee on Sociology of Science and Technology,
RC23 （1）The Sociology of Disaster from Technoscience: Science, Technology andSustainability beyond Fukushima
Session Organizer
Miwao MATSUMOTO, University of Tokyo, Japan, GHCO3207@nifty.com
Not open for submission of abstracts.

Research Committee on Environment and Society, RC24 （4）Anti-Nuclear Movements Post-Fukushima

Session Organizers
Koichi HASEGAWA, Tohoku University, Japan, k-hase@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
Sun-Jin YUN, Seoul National University, Korea, ecodemo@snu.ac.kr

Nuclear Energy Post-Fukushima: Impacts, Lessons and Policy Responses
Session Organizers
Harutoshi FUNABASHI, Hosei University, Japan, hfunabas@mtj.biglobe.ne.jp
Arthur MOL, Wageningen University, Netherlands, arthur.mol@wur.nl
Additional proposals for participation in this session are welcome.

Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development
Session Organizers
Yasushi MARUYAMA, Nagoya University, Japan, ym@nagoya-u.jp
Rajendra PATIL, Shivaji University, India, patilsuk@gmail.com
Shin-Ock CHANG, Jeju National University, Korea, changshinock@gmail.com

Waste in Today’s World: Waste not Want not?
Session Organizer
Lynne CIOCHETTO, Massey University, New Zealand, l.m.ciochetto@massey.ac.nz

Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters, RC39 （13）Cultural Preservation, Memory, and Restoration in Disaster Contexts
Session Organizer
William LOVEKAMP, Eastern Illinois University, USA, welovekamp@eiu.edu

Disaster and Development Discourses, Policies, and Practices

Session Organizers
Andrew E. COLLINS, Northumbria University, United Kingdom,
andrew.collins@northumbria.ac.uk
Hirokazu TATANO, Kyoto University, Japan, tatano@imdr.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Norio OKADA, Kamamoto University, Japan, n-okada@kumamoto-u.ac.jp

Disaster Capitalism: Exploring the Political Economy of Disaster
Session Organizer
Lee MILLER, Sam Houston State University, USA, lmm007@shsu.edu

Disaster Vulnerability, Resilience Building, and Social Marginality
Session Organizers
Margarethe KUSENBACH, University of South Florida, USA, mkusenba@usf.edu
Gabriela CHRISTMANN, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning,
Germany, christmann@irs-net.de

Disaster Warnings
Session Organizer
Michael LINDELL, Texas A&M University, USA, mlindell@archone.tamu.edu

Disasters and Politics
Session Organizer
Benigno AGUIRRE, University of Delaware, USA, aguirre@udel.edu

From Disaster to Lessons Learned: Citizen
Accountability in the Aftermath of Disasters

ResilienceandGovernment

Session Organizer
DeMond MILLER, Rowan University, USA, millerd@rowan.edu

Learning from History: Research into Past Disasters
Session Organizer
Joseph SCANLON, Carleton University, Canada, jscanlon@connect.carleton.ca

Lessons Learned through Assessing Disaster Preparedness, Response, Recovery,
and Mitigation
Session Organizer
Dana M. GREENE, University of North Carolina, USA, greenedm@email.unc.edu

Looking for Relief: Humanitarian Aid and Volunteerism in the Aftermath of Disaster
Session Organizer
Tricia WACHTENDORF, University of Delaware, USA, twachten@udel.edu

Sociological Studies and Disaster: The Challenges of Regulation
Session Organizer
Susan STERETT, National Science Foundation, USA, ssterett@nsf.gov
Invited panel.

The Impact of Disasters on Culture, Livelihood, and Material Goods
Session Organizers
Michele COMPANION, University of Colorado, USA, mcompani@uccs.edu
Susann ULLBERG, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden, susann.ullberg@fhs.se

What a Gender Lens Brings to Disaster Studies: Case Studies from Japan and
BeyondSession Organizers
Elaine ENARSON, USA, enarsone@gmail.com
Shelley PACHOLOK, University of British Columbia, Canada, shelley.pacholok@ubc.ca
Panel.

Research Committee on Social Movements,
Collective Action and Social Change, RC48 （2）Pre-Disaster Alternative Politics in Post-Disaster Protests
Session Organizer
Patricia STEINHOFF, University of Hawaii, USA, steinhof@hawaii.edu
Panel.

Safety and Mental Health in Contemporary Societies
Session Organizer
Reinhold KILIAN, Ulm University, Germany, Reinhold.kilian@uni-ulm.de
As contributions to this symposium, abstracts of theoretical papers as well as results of
empirical studies are welcome.

Joint Sessions （4）RC06RC39 : Disasters and Families
Joint session of RC06 Family Research and RC39 Sociology of Disasters [host committee]
Session Organizers
Noriko IWAI, Osaka University of Commerce, Japan, n-iwai@tcn.zaq.ne.jp
Alice FOTHERGILL, University of Vermont, USA, alice.fothergill@uvm.edu

RC06RC39/2 : Families Responses to Natural and Human-Made Disasters
Joint session of RC06 Family Research [host committee] and RC39 Sociology of Disasters
Session Organizers
DeMond S. MILLER, Rowan University, USA, millerd@rowan.edu
Mark HUTTER, Rowan University, USA, hutter@rowan.edu

RC17RC39 : Organizations and Disasters
Joint session of RC17 Sociology of Organizations and RC39 Sociology of Disasters [hostcommittee]
Session Organizers
Dean PIERIDES, University of Melbourne, Australia, d.pierides@unimelb.edu.au
Joe DEVILLE, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, j.deville@gold.ac.uk
Avi KIRSCHENBAUM, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, avik@tx.technion.ac.il

RC37WG03: Disaster Art: Visualizing Human Culpability from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Joint session of RC37 Sociology of Arts and WG03 Visual Sociology [host committee]
Session Organizers
Regev NATHANSOHN, University of Michigan, USA, regev@umich.edu
Paulo MENEZES, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, paulomen@usp.br

Japanese Thematic Sessions （1）Thematic Sessions prepared by the Japanese Local Organizing Committee.
By invitation only.
Thematic Session 1

Natural/Human Disasters and the Recovery of Local Society
Session Organizers
Koichi HASEGAWA, Tohoku University, Japan, k-hase@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
Takashi MACHIMURA, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, t.machimura@r.hit-u.ac.jp
Not open for submission of abstracts.

Research Committee on Armed Forces andConflict Resolution, RC01
The 3.11 East-Japan Great Earthquake and Fukushima: Lessons Learned fromInternational Disaster Relief Operations
Session Organizer
Hitoshi KAWANO, National Defense Academy, Japan, hkawano.mail@gmail.com
Session in English
The East-Japan Great Earthquake in March 11, 2011, subsequent waves of tsunami, andthe nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima, resulted in the largest-ever domestic
disaster relief operation in the JSDF history, mobilizing more than 100,000 personnel at its
peak. The Joint-Task Force involved Ground, Maritime, and Air Self-Defense Forces. In
addition, many countries sent their military forces or aid teams to assist the disaster relief
operations in Japan. In particular, the United States provided a major support by launchingthe “Operation TOMODACHI” that involved more than 20,000 troops. It was the first major
joint operation by JSDF and the US military. Other foreign militaries include Australia (Air
Force, C-17), Korea (Air Force, C-130), Thailand (Air Force, C-130), and Israel (MedicalTeam).
Since it was a major national emergency, and the first large-scale SDF operation incooperation with other military and civil organizations, there were numerous challenging
issues involving errors, misunderstanding, miscommunication or lack of communication,ineffective coordination, and other shortcomings in terms of international cooperation. The
session aims to review the social processes of the international disaster relief operations by
military organizations, and offer lessons learned from the tragic disaster for future disaster
relief operations involving a nuclear plant disaster. The session invites any papers dealing
with the issues listed below:
1. The Operation TOMODACHI by the US armed forces, and the lessons learned from theinternational disaster relief operation.
2. The international disaster relief/rescue/medical aid operations by other countries’ armed
forces/military personnel.
3. Cooperation/coordination between Japan Self-Defense Forces and foreign troops.
4. Cooperation/coordination between the military and civil organizations including local
governments, police/fire departments and various NGOs.
5. Evacuation operations of the national population living in Japan using military resources.
6. Gender perspective, and gender mainstreaming.
7. Mental health care of the military personnel, and stress management.
8. Family support for the deployed personnel.
9. Leadership in international disaster relief operation.
10.Cultural awareness and cross-cultural cooperation, training of “empathy”.
11.Diversity management.

Research Committee on Regional and Urban
Development, RC21
Theme III.3 Disasters, Risks and Civil Society: A Comparative View of Urban
Resilience Strategies
Session Organizers
Kaoru ENDO, Gakushuin University, Japan, kaoru.endo@gakushuin.ac.jp
Hideo NAKAZAWA, Chuo University, Japan, nakazawa@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp
Session in English
Our globe is witnessing unprecedented natural disasters (floods,hurricanes, tsunamis),
pandemics, and other human-made disasters in the age of reflexive modernity. Apparently
various risks became normally embedded in our daily life, as Ulrich Beck predicted in 1986.
Risk prevention/precaution or disaster management is an urgent issue for policy makers,organizational managers, and for citizens and communities. This session deals with theway disasters and risks are addressed in urban areas disentangling the role different
regulatory levels play (local, national, supranational,..). In particular, it considers social
resilience strategies in cities, referring to civil society activities, to the role of science andmedia and to the different policy orientations. Reference to recent disasters (e.g. Great
East Japan Earthquake, Katrina, Sandy, …) is envisaged.
This session aims at comparing and integrating knowledge, logics,skills/techniques tohandle these disasters/risks in urban areas. It also aims at discussing and theorizing thesocial/political structure behind the disaster, and the relief actions by civil society andcommunities, and the implication they might have. More specifically we shall try totheorize how disasters challenge social/communal resilience.
How can we find the best mix of technology and culture for disaster prevention?



In a global risk society what would be lessons to be shared and how will be the solidarity
and resilience against risks forged?
The potential topics papers might address in this session include: various aspects of risksociety, infrastructure, disrupted cities, (global/local) civic cooperation aftermath/toprevent disasters, (global/local) solidarity against risks/disasters, policies for resiliencebuilding.

Research Committee on Sociology of Science andTechnology, RC23
The Sociology of Disaster from Technoscience: Science, Technology andSustainability beyond Fukushima
Session Organizer
Miwao MATSUMOTO, University of Tokyo, Japan, GHCO3207@nifty.com

Session in English
Not open for submission of abstracts.
The Fukushima accident and its simultaneous disaster have revealed the place of
non-modern “nuclear village” amidst of public sphere. The US Congress Survey Reportcharacterizes the “village” as embodying the conflict of interests while other narratives
tend to appeal to a kind of cultural essentialism in a broad sense. This symposium regards
the formation and working mechanism of the nuclear regime in Japan and elsewhere as
much more deep-routed and persistent, and in these senses, universal than expected byeither narrative.
By focusing on the huge and unexplored interface between the sociology of disaster andthat of science and technology, the symposium attempts to shed a fresh light on theembedded origin of the regime that has changed risk into disaster. This symposiumattempts to explore the in-depth social implications of extreme events such as the
Fukushima accident. Behind serious and urgent questions over resilience from the accident,
there are many sociological stories that have not been told and are difficult to be revealed
without devising a due narrative different from ordinary ones in the sociology of scienceand technology. To that end the symposium intends to utilize a unique combination ofparticipants.

Research Committee on Environment and Society,
RC24
Anti-Nuclear Movements Post-Fukushima
Session Organizers
Koichi HASEGAWA, Tohoku University, Japan, k-hase@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
Sun-Jin YUN, Seoul National University, Korea, ecodemo@snu.ac.kr
Session in English
The Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 had serious political implications forpoliticians, regulatory agencies, operators and others involved in the nuclear power sector
in Japan and internationally. While the accident provided new impetus to anti-nuclear
movements and activities, a number of questions remain concerning its short andlong-term implications both for anti-nuclear politics and for environmental social
movements more broadly.
This session welcomes papers addressing questions such as:
1. How have anti-nuclear movements changed in the wake of Fukushima? Who are the newparticipants and major actors?
2. What styles, strategies and tactics have emerged?
3. To what extent have anti-nuclear movements been able to influence energy policy andpractice?
4. What differences can we find and what has caused those differences among countries?
5. What prospects exist for a new wave of anti-nuclear activities across Asia and worldwide?

Nuclear Energy Post-Fukushima: Impacts, Lessons and Policy Responses
Session Organizers
Harutoshi FUNABASHI, Hosei University, Japan, hfunabas@mtj.biglobe.ne.jp
Arthur MOL, Wageningen University, Netherlands, arthur.mol@wur.nl
Session in English
The Fukushima nuclear disaster produced immense damage and suffering in Fukushima
Prefecture and neighboring districts, raising many questions for sociologists. In thissession, we will reflect on the following topics.
1. Faced with such unprecedented disaster, the first mission of sociologists is to grasp thereality of victims and their communities. Akihiko SATO (Japan) will describe and analyze
the damage and suffering experienced by residents who had lived around the nuclear
plant.
2. The outbreak of the Fukushima disaster implies that Japanese society has failed to learn
lessons from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and has lacked effective regulatory measureson nuclear technologies. Koichi HASEGAWA (Japan) will analyze defects in policy making inJapanese society that contributed to this disaster and highlight Japanese energy policy
disputes after the disaster.
3. Lessons from the Fukushima disaster must be learned not only by Japanese society but
also by all other countries which have used or will use nuclear energy. Seejae LEE (Korea)
will analyze the impact and lessons of the Fukushima disaster on developing countries. He
will discuss the important role of citizens` movements in changing nuclear energy policy.
4. In spite of the enormous damage caused by the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear industry
and government in some advanced countries such as the USA and France insist on the
merits and necessity of nuclear energy. However, sociologists should analyze suchreasoning from the viewpoint of political sociology. Looking from inside the USA, Jeffrey
BROADBENT will analyze the political structure of a society where the nuclear complex
plays an important role and diffuses dominant discourse.
5. In opposition to the USA`s pro-nuclear policy, several European countries such as
Germany and Switzerland have decisively chosen a path toward a nuclear free society.
Ecological modernization theory is a powerful support for this direction. Arthur MOL(Netherlands), who is a leading proponent of this theory, will analyze the meaning of the
Fukushima disaster from the viewpoint of environmental sociology and will propose abetter way of changing energy policy as well as decision making in contemporary society.
Additional proposals for participation in this session are welcome.

Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development
Session Organizers
Yasushi MARUYAMA, Nagoya University, Japan, ym@nagoya-u.jp
Rajendra PATIL, Shivaji University, India, patilsuk@gmail.com

Shin-Ock CHANG, Jeju National University, Korea, changshinock@gmail.com
Session in English
Climate change, peak oil and accidents such as Fukushima have all contributed to growinginterest in renewable energy. Moreover, renewable energy has attracted the attention ofcommunities and organisations whose interests lie in the potential impacts, both positive andnegative, of renewable energy for rural development, poverty alleviation, public health,environmental justice etc.
The aim of this session is to examine relationships between renewable energy and sustainable
development. While there will be a particular focus on exploring the implications andpossibilities for renewable energy in communities that are economically and/or politicallymarginalized, papers on any aspect of the sociology of renewable energy are welcome.
Potential topics include:
NIMBYism and other social barriers to renewable energy development
Social changes stimulated by renewable energy development
Best practice in renewable energy diffusion and implementation
Energy, equity and environmental justiceRenewable energy and poverty alleviation
Renewable energy policy, programs and regulatory frameworks
Community renewable energy projects, modification of attitudes and behaviour for sustainableenergyCompeting constructions of ‘energy security’

Waste in Today’s World: Waste not Want not?
Session Organizer
Lynne CIOCHETTO, Massey University, New Zealand, l.m.ciochetto@massey.ac.nz
Session in English
In contemporary industrialized consumer societies the production of waste is accelerating
exponentially. Issues of waste – with sewage and human waste associations – tends to be
repellent and remote from everyday life. Waste problems are easy to overlook and they areovershadowed in the media by the global issues of climate and environmental changes.
However, waste is an important multidimensional problem that is perilous to ignore. Waste
touches on all four pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic, social and cultural.
Issues of waste cover a wide spectrum: from the use of resources, to the by-products ofindustrialization and agribusiness, the way products are produced, consumed and discarded.
In a time when global food is under pressure much of the food produced is wasted by producers,
retailers or consumers. In an increasingly technical world electronic waste is becoming a major
problem. The expanding demand for energy is creating many waste problems from carbon
emissions to nuclear waste. As urbanization accelerates in the developing world cities are
becoming overwhelmed by inadequate infrastructure to process waste. Our seas are becoming
polluted with chemicals and plastics.This panel invites submissions that cover the spectrum ofwaste from micro-level to macro-level, from case studies to policy.

Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters,
RC39
Cultural Preservation, Memory, and Restoration in Disaster Contexts
Session Organizer
William LOVEKAMP, Eastern Illinois University, USA, welovekamp@eiu.edu
Session in English
This session will explore the ways that communities can be prepared for and recover fromdisasters by preserving the cultural heritage, historic record, landmarks, and otherimportant elements of community. This session also examines the importance of collective
memory in disasters, such as how collective memory of events can shape future mitigationand preparedness, the importance of memorializing after disasters, and the importance ofremembering as an element of community identity.

Disaster and Development Discourses, Policies, and Practices
Session Organizers
Andrew E. COLLINS, Northumbria University, United Kingdom,
andrew.collins@northumbria.ac.uk
Hirokazu TATANO, Kyoto University, Japan, tatano@imdr.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Norio OKADA, Kamamoto University, Japan, n-okada@kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Session in English
Disaster and development discourses of the last two decades have tended to converge
around matters of sustainability, risk, resilience, adaptation, and poverty reduction. Less
attention has been paid, however, to the implications of this convergent thinking for
researching issues of prediction, precaution, and hope in human survival. There is a needto understand the systems of meaning that underlie disaster and development thinking.
This work should be engaged cross-culturally and in relation to the emergent institutions of
the future. How also might the conceptualization of disaster and development get reflectedback through policies and practices of a growing disaster reduction or sustainable
development industry?
This session aims to bring together a number of contributions that address theoretical,
methodological, and sector based interpretations addressing disaster in development andvice versa. The session is timely as we reconsider complex disaster events in terms ofvarying development trajectories. This extends to looking anew at accompanying global
strategies that would anticipate, take better care of, and motivate people who struggle
with local realities stemming from global change. The session is hosted by the Japan-UK
Disaster Risk Reduction Study Programme and is open to inputs from any part of the world.

Disaster Capitalism: Exploring the Political Economy of Disaster
Session Organizer

Lee MILLER, Sam Houston State University, USA, lmm007@shsu.edu
Session in English
Political and economic systems provide the contexts in which disasters occur. Thesesystems create or lessen economic, political, and social inequalities thereby influencing
vulnerabilities and exposure to risk. Furthermore, resources are managed and distributed
in preparation for, and in response to, disasters differently according to political andeconomic pressures. Efforts to mitigate risks and consequences of disasters are alsoemphasized or overlooked depending on political will and economic priorities.
Since economic and political contexts accentuate or diminish vulnerabilities to, andconsequences of, disasters, disaster scholars are exploring the interrelationships between
economics, politics, and disasters. For example, the concept of “disaster capitalism” points
to the ways disasters can be leveraged for large economic gains, usually by economic andpolitical elites that result in heightened economic inequalities and increased exploitation ofdisenfranchised groups. However, the long-term effects of disaster capitalism onvulnerability and risk are under researched. Therefore, in terms of preparedness, response,
recovery, and mitigation, the political economy of disaster offers compelling new directions
for disaster research. Research from diverse economic and political contexts will examine
these themes from a range of international and comparative perspectives.

Disaster Vulnerability, Resilience Building, and Social Marginality
Session Organizers
Margarethe KUSENBACH, University of South Florida, USA, mkusenba@usf.edu
Gabriela CHRISTMANN, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning,
Germany, christmann@irs-net.deSession in English
The session welcomes papers investigating conceptual and empirical aspects of both
vulnerability and resilience to disasters and social crises at the social margins; among
urban or rural poor communities, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants and non-citizens,the elderly, persons with disabilities, and/or other disadvantaged groups, in all regions of
the world. We invite empirical studies of how – considering their structural, cultural, andsituational constraints –marginalized groups perceive hazards, social crises, and their own
vulnerability. How do they prepare for, and deal with, specific emergencies and disaster
contexts? And how do they build resilience?
We also welcome theoretical submissions that critically examine current definitions ofvulnerability and resilience, and that show awareness of the fact that resilience building of
one social group might increase the vulnerability of others. Further, given their growing
use outside of disaster studies, what can these concepts contribute toward the study ofsocial problems and social inequality more generally? And what is their value forunderstanding conditions and processes of social inequality? Whether theoretical or
empirical, we hope that papers in this session will contribute ideas and strategies towardimproving education, reducing individual or collective risk, encouraging collaborative
governance of preparedness, and informing social policy regarding disasters, social crises,
and social problems in the future.

Disaster Warnings
Session Organizer
Michael LINDELL, Texas A&M University, USA, mlindell@archone.tamu.edu
Session in English
This session will address issues associated with warning sources (e.g., authorities, news
media, and peers), warning channels (e.g., broadcast, print, Internet), and message
content (e.g., threat, responses by authorities, recommended household protective
actions). The session will also examine differences among warning recipients in theirperceptions of warning sources, channel access and preferences, cognitive processing of
message content, and responses (e.g., information seeking, protective response, andemotion-focused coping).

Disasters and Politics
Session Organizer
Benigno AGUIRRE, University of Delaware, USA, aguirre@udel.edu
Session in English
The session will delve into the reciprocal, complex relationships that exist between politicalsystems and disasters. It will accept manuscripts that explore these relationships and thatwill give answers to the following types of questions:
What are the impacts of types of political representation (and domination) on thecapability of societies to prepare, respond, reconstruct, and recover from the effects ofdisasters?
How is it that societies’ abilities to establish rule systems that increase the likelihood of the
adoption of mitigation depend on the presence and effectiveness of constitutional,
democratic governments?
To what extent is the accumulation of disaster-related risks associated with dictatorships?

From Disaster to Lessons Learned: Citizen
Accountability in the Aftermath of Disasters

ResilienceandGovernment

Session Organizer
DeMond MILLER, Rowan University, USA, millerd@rowan.edu
Session in English
Oftentimes it is assumed that we learn from the disasters of the past as a way to prevent
disasters from occurring in the future. Following a disaster, a heightened awareness ofproblems and potential solutions may lead to a false sense of security leaving citizens tothink that local and national governments are ready for the next catastrophic event. Many
humanitarian and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), governments and policy
makers often invoke the “lessons learned” stance as a way to assure the public thatcatastrophic events (e.g. flooding of New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina or the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear disaster) will not occur again.
This session has a threefold purpose: 1) understand how citizens interact with government
and non-governmental agencies to use information to become more resilient and lessvulnerable to the next disaster; 2) view the role and responsibilities of governments; and3) foster a dialogue regarding how disaster research can inform processes, policy makers,
the broader public’s understanding of disasters, disaster policy, and disaster rebuilding
policy.

Learning from History: Research into Past Disasters
Session Organizer
Joseph SCANLON, Carleton University, Canada, jscanlon@connect.carleton.ca
Session in English
Thanks to seminal work from researchers at the Disaster Research Center, the Natural
Hazards Center, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), among others,
there has been a great deal of research into incidents right after they happened. But there
has been little attempt – with a few notable exceptions – to delve into historical records tolearn about past disasters. This session will include papers about any and all aspects ofdisaster history. Authors will be encouraged to mention what light their historical researchcasts on current findings about human and organizational behavior in disaster.

Lessons Learned through Assessing Disaster Preparedness, Response, Recovery,
and Mitigation
Session Organizer
Dana M. GREENE, University of North Carolina, USA, greenedm@email.unc.edu
Session in English
This session is broadly conceived as a comparative analysis between lessons learned fromprevious natural, technological, and intentional human-caused disasters and what remains
to be learned. Given the recent occurrence of these types of events worldwide, papers
should focus on past natural or technological disasters as well as emergent threats (e.g.,school shootings, terrorism, etc.).
This session will address questions and concerns related to the applied sociology ofdisasters; namely, where do we go from here, and how do we navigate a new normal in the
post-disaster milieu. Papers included in this session should address specific issues indisaster preparedness, response, recovery, and/or mitigation in international context,
while also offering recommendations for researchers and practitioners.

Looking for Relief: Humanitarian Aid and Volunteerism in the Aftermath of Disaster
Session Organizer
Tricia WACHTENDORF, University of Delaware, USA, twachten@udel.edu
Session in English
This will examine the challenges of providing human assistance and humanitarian aid in
the aftermath of disaster. Aid and assistance typically flows from a combination of formal
and informal sources, and through activity that combines established and emergent
mechanisms. The success of these efforts varies considerably, sometimes with long-term
implications on development efforts underway prior to the disaster event. The ways inwhich assistance is provided may be tightly connected to social, political, economic, andcultural factors. Papers may consider such topics as organizational coordination,
convergence,

ethicalconcerns

inreliefprovision,

volunteer

activity,

culturalappropriateness of giving, and the role of news and social media in generating relief,
among other areas.

Sociological Studies and Disaster: The Challenges of Regulation
Session Organizer
Susan STERETT, National Science Foundation, USA, ssterett@nsf.gov
Session in English
Recent disasters have brought to the fore the importance of regulatory and compensatory
frameworks and how each is mobilized both domestically and internationally. These issues
directly implicate the conference theme concerning inequality: the unequal distribution ofrisk and the ineffectiveness of legal response can be amplified by inequality in mobilizing
the law on one’s own behalf.
This invited panel will bring sociological insights to concerns about limits to the legal
regulation safety and compensation for loss through legal processes. It will include ananalysis of the IAEA, the international body responsible for nuclear power regulation, as a
reputation-seeking organization, and why that might imply limits to the effectiveness ofsafety regulation. Despite both international and domestic regulation, we can expect
disasters to occur, turning us to response and compensation. The remaining papers willaddress disaster response and compensation, focusing on Thailand and Japan after the2011 disasters. Panelists will address how lawyers and legal rules have or have notfacilitated compensation in Japan, and why changes in law did not make for better
response to the 2011 flood in Thailand.

The Impact of Disasters on Culture, Livelihood, and Material Goods
Session Organizers
Michele COMPANION, University of Colorado, USA, mcompani@uccs.edu
Susann ULLBERG, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden, susann.ullberg@fhs.se
Session in English
Disasters have an immediate and long-term impact on communities. They provide

unanticipated opportunities for growth and adaptation, mitigation of threat to livelihood or
cultural survival, or, at times, may result in community collapse. Disruption to life-ways
also alters the relationship between people and the material objects used for economic
exchange, religious and spiritual life, replication of cultural identity, artistic expression,and memory. This session seeks to explore processes of cultural change and continuity ofcommunities in the face of disasters and what role material goods play in these processes.
We welcome research from any point in a disaster event (before, during, or after) and fromdisaster situations world-wide.

What a Gender Lens Brings to Disaster Studies: Case Studies from Japan and
BeyondSession Organizers
Elaine ENARSON, USA, enarsone@gmail.com
Shelley PACHOLOK, University of British Columbia, Canada, shelley.pacholok@ubc.ca
Session in English
Scientists predict that climate change, rapid urbanization and development, increasing
population, growing wealth divides, environmental degradation, and neoliberal policy
reforms will increase the frequency and intensity of disasters as well as their human andeconomic costs. In this context of change, uncertainty, and heightened risk new insights
generated by Japan’s growing body of research on the vulnerability and resilience of
women and men, boys and girls are particularly relevant for gender-focused disasterstudies.
This panel is an opportunity for Japanese researchers to share their findings from recent
disasters and to engage with international gender and disaster researchers. Other
panelists are invited to share findings from case studies in different regions. Each paper
will address the significance of a dynamic hazard environment for gender relations in thecontext of preparedness, impact, response, and recovery. Speakers will be invited to give
special attention to intersections with sexual identity, age, social class, and region, and to
consider what can be learned about sustainable recovery from gender focused research.

Research Committee on Social Movements,
Collective Action and Social Change, RC48
Pre-Disaster Alternative Politics in Post-Disaster Protests
Session Organizer
Patricia STEINHOFF, University of Hawaii, USA, steinhof@hawaii.edu
Session in English
Following Japan’s “triple disaster” on March 11, 2011, Japanese society has witnessedsome of the largest public protests to emerge in decades. This panel locates the rise incollective protest within the historical trajectory of existing civil society organizations inJapan. It examines the continuation, change, and transformation of these social
movements since 3.11 as they have responded to the ramifications of the disaster, andrelates them to the broad body of literature on social movements and collective behavior.
Organizations within Japanese civil society have a long history of grappling with various
social issues that arose from the fracturing of the postwar paradigm premised on economic
growth and political stability.
The panel will approach the rise in protest since the 3.11 crisis through the responses oforganizations that have been dealing with issues such as nonstandard employment, U.S.
military base issues in Okinawa, dispossessed youths who hop from job to job,
constitutional revision, and other social issues. The panel will explore the following
questions.
How do these organizations frame the crisis and engage in post-3.11 popular protests?
What were the processes of connecting their old agenda to a new agenda?
What do the connections linking pre-existing social movements with new actors, and new
movements that have emerged from the 3.11 crisis suggest about the future of Japanese
civil society?
What do these studies contribute to the study of social movements and collective behavior
more generally?

Safety and Mental Health in Contemporary Societies
Session Organizer
Reinhold KILIAN, Ulm University, Germany, Reinhold.kilian@uni-ulm.de
Session in English
Safety is a crucial precondition of human life and the lack of safety in many areas of life has
been identified as a major risk factor for the occurrence of mental disorders. Contemporarysocieties differ largely in the extent they provide basic safety with regard to the provisionof food, water, accommodation, health care, protection form violence and constitutionality.
However, even people who live in societies who guarantee all of these basics areconfronted with increasing economic uncertainties, environmental hazards, international
terrorism, and food scandals.
In this symposium an overview on the international research on relationships between
several types of uncertainties and mental disorders as well as between safety and mental
health should be provided. As contributions to this symposium, abstracts of theoretical
papers as well as results of empirical studies are welcome.

Joint Sessions
RC06RC39 : Disasters and Families
Joint session of RC06 Family Research and RC39 Sociology of Disasters [host committee]
Session Organizers
Noriko IWAI, Osaka University of Commerce, Japan, n-iwai@tcn.zaq.ne.jp
Alice FOTHERGILL, University of Vermont, USA, alice.fothergill@uvm.edu
Session in English
In the past decade, many nations, such as Japan, Haiti, China, the United States,
Indonesia, and others have experienced major disasters. This session will examine theimpact of such large-scale events on families. We are especially interested in research on
families in all stages of the disaster lifecycle, including: risk perception, preparedness,
response to warnings, evacuation behavior, short- and long-term recovery, andreconstruction. We also hope that researchers will further understanding of how social
vulnerability, poverty, the relocation of households, the scattering of family members, theloss of stable family income, and other factors influence the ability of families to prepare for,respond to, and recover from disaster. Moreover, we encourage authors to engage
questions related to how families, as units, can better prepare for and become more
resilient in the face of disaster.

RC06RC39/2 : Families Responses to Natural and Human-Made Disasters
Joint session of RC06 Family Research [host committee] and RC39 Sociology of Disasters
Session Organizers
DeMond S. MILLER, Rowan University, USA, millerd@rowan.edu
Mark HUTTER, Rowan University, USA, hutter@rowan.edu
Session in English
This session will seek papers that focus on how families deal with natural disasters. In
recent years, in the United States, two hurricanes – Katrina and Sandy – impacted on
people living in southern states and most notably New Orleans, Louisiana and on the
Jersey Shore of New Jersey and coastal areas of New York City. Worldwide, natural
disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti and Indonesia and human-made disasters suchas the nuclear disasters in Chernobyl and in Japan affected the people who lived in theirrespective countries.
Papers should be directed at the ways that families have responded to such disasters.
Coping patterns and resiliency patterns and the family as well as family disorganization
effects as a resultant of disasters should be addressed in such papers. We welcome papers
that specifically relate to disasters that occur in a given country. Papers can focus on
marital disruption patterns, generational effects, etc. Papers of a more theoretical bent
that discusses families in terms of crisis as a result of disasters are also of great interest.

RC17RC39 : Organizations and Disasters
Joint session of RC17 Sociology of Organizations and RC39 Sociology of Disasters [hostcommittee]
Session Organizers
Dean PIERIDES, University of Melbourne, Australia, d.pierides@unimelb.edu.au
Joe DEVILLE, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, j.deville@gold.ac.uk
Avi KIRSCHENBAUM, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, avik@tx.technion.ac.il
Session in English
Sociologists of disasters frame the organization and organizing as critical components in
disaster management. Organization theorists have found disasters useful in making theircase, particularly when disasters shed light on organizational failure or disintegration. Yet
studies featuring both “organization” and “disaster” have produced very different kinds ofaccounts of the relationship between the two – sociologists of disaster and sociologists oforganization only rarely confronting opportunities, and indeed tensions, that emerge frombringing these objects of exploration together.
We invite papers with an interest in both the sociology of disasters and the sociology oforganization. What do these two fields and their objects have to say to each other? Whatmight a more symmetrical understanding of disasters and organizations afford? How could
links between studies of disaster and the sociology of organization be strengthened? Whatinsights on organizational continuity, maintenance and basic economic infrastructure of
the wider society, does a collaboration between these two research areas afford? Papers
can be empirical or theoretical and should focus on issues relevant to both fields (e.g.
uncertainty, preparedness, accountability, risk, communication, etc.).

RC37WG03: Disaster Art: Visualizing Human Culpability from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Joint session of RC37 Sociology of Arts and WG03 Visual Sociology [host committee]
Session Organizers
Regev NATHANSOHN, University of Michigan, USA, regev@umich.edu
Paulo MENEZES, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, paulomen@usp.br
Session in English
Not open for submission of abstracts.
Hiroshima (1945) and Fukushima (2011). Two nuclear disasters; the former triggered by auranium bomb. Little Boy, dropped by American pilots on 6 August 1945, the latter caused by
the 9.0 earthquake and attendant tsunami on 11 March 2011 that destroyed a nuclear power
plant, where inadequate safety features exacerbated the subsequent meltdown. Both events
continue to inspire a visual culture of disaster, often, like mine, of a comparative nature. I will
explore how artists, broadly interpreted to include both amateurs and professionals, have useda range of old and new media to express, describe, represent, and memorialize these twonuclear disasters. Much attention has already been paid to the documentary role and also
therapeutic nature of disaster art, but I am especially interested here in whether and/or how
human culpability is signified in works of art dealing with Hiroshima and Fukushima.

Japanese Thematic Sessions
Thematic Sessions prepared by the Japanese Local Organizing Committee.
By invitation only.
Thematic Session 1

Natural/Human Disasters and the Recovery of Local Society
Session Organizers
Koichi HASEGAWA, Tohoku University, Japan, k-hase@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
Takashi MACHIMURA, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, t.machimura@r.hit-u.ac.jp
Not open for submission of abstracts.
The 3.11 disaster in 2011 has raised many tasks to sociological studies. This was acomplex combination of earthquake, tsunami and serious nuclear accident. What can we
do as sociologists? What should we learn from it? What feedback can we provide to thedevastated area? The session “Natural/Human Disasters and the Recovery of Local Society”
consists of four prominent papers.
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The first one will provide a global perspective on the sociology of disaster focusing on
gender, ethnicity, and inequality with a comparative view on the case of Hurricane Katrinaof 2005 in the United States as well as other major disasters.

The second paper will discuss problems in the recovering process in the fishermen’s villageof Minami Sanriku Town, in the tsunami-devastated area of northeastern Japan.

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The third paper will discuss the problems faced by the refugees from thenuclear-contaminated area of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, focusing on thedecontamination processes, generation gaps, and other segmentations of the challenges
the refugees experience.

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The fourth paper will present the damage in local farming and the self-metering activities
of radiation levels in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, which shows a hot spot area in the Tokyo
metropolitan area.
Discussants will provide comments on Japanese society and the research experience on
floods in Brisbane, Australia, in January 2011.