QuakeStory 175
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A story submitted by Zoe to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Zoe to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Kate to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 14 June 2011 entitled, "Still alive".
A story submitted by Greg Cole to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Rosie Belton to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Hege to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Rachel to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 May 2011 entitled, "Christchurch Conversations".
A story submitted by Mike Williams to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Nicky Taylor to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Sarah to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Rosie Belton to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 16 March 2011 entitled, "Hotdesking".
A story submitted by Frank Hardy to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 1 March 2011 entitled, "Back home".
A story submitted by Bettina to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Anonymous to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 24 July 2011 entitled, "Being brave, and books in a fridge".
A story submitted by Lynette Evans to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Tracy to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Alison Downes to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Mary Browne to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 24 February 2011 entitled, "Checking in".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 2 March 2011 entitled, "Random things".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 28 June 2011 entitled, "Making it better...".
Fran Vertue is a Clinical Psychologist with experience in truama counselling. She speaks about how to handle children dealing with the trauma of the Canterbury earthquake.
Chimney Book takes rubble from the Christchurch earthquake, and turns it into the building blocks of a film exploring life in the quake zone. Christchurch musician Blair Parkes took bricks from his chimney — destroyed in the 22 February 2011 aftershocks — painted a letter or symbol on each, then scanned them into his computer. Sound and word form the spine of the result, which is part diary, part experimental film. Parkes explores his experiences of living in Christchurch since the quake through words like 'dust', 'memory', 'place', and a question: 'is it over?'
A special trauma team has been brought into Christchurch to try to stop a panic exodus of refugees living in the city. Among the 70-thousand people who have fled Christchurch in the last week are refugees who are afraid that another big earthquake will hit. The team is also working with new immigrants, many of whom are victims of war and torture. Dr Arif Saeid is with the organisation Refugees As Survivors.
On September the 4th 2010 and February 22nd 2011 the Canterbury region of New Zealand was shaken by two massive earthquakes. This paper is set broadly within the civil defence and emergency management literature and informed by recent work on community participation and social capital in the building of resilient cities. Work in this area indicates a need to recognise both the formal institutional response to the earthquakes as well as the substantive role communities play in their own recovery. The range of factors that facilitate or hinder community involvement also needs to be better understood. This paper interrogates the assumption that recovery agencies and officials are both willing and able to engage communities who are themselves willing and able to be engaged in accordance with recovery best practice. Case studies of three community groups – CanCERN, Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler – illustrate some of the difficulties associated with becoming a community during the disaster recovery phase. Based on my own observations and experiences, combined with data from approximately 50 in-depth interviews with Christchurch residents and representatives from community groups, the Christchurch City Council, the Earthquake Commission and so on, this paper outlines some practical strategies emerging communities may use in the early disaster recovery phase that then strengthens their ability to ‘participate’ in the recovery process.