| Titre | Paysage après la tempête. Les retombées d'une catastrophe naturelle : ordre et désordre dans le culturel | |
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| Auteur | Patrick Prado | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 118-119, 1990 Météo / Espaces péri-urbains | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La météo. Pour une anthropologie du temps qu'il fait Un sociodrame météorologique |
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| Page | 31-43 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Landscape after a Storm. Aftereffects of a Natural Catastrophe : Order and Disorder in the Cultural Realm
What is eventful in a natural catastrophe is not the declarations, in public or in secret, of those who experienced it but rather the capacity to emit a message. For this reason, the gravity of a catastrophe depends on the power of the means of information. On the contrary, private language following a catastrophe (herein, a tempest in Brittany, France, in October 1987) temporarily modifies the signs of power. It reorganizes meaning following nature's disorganization. It anthropomorphizes : "Nature is wreaking vengeance." Catastrophes generate a spontaneous etiology which, often expressed in terms of excess and scarcity, represents a metaphorical interpretation of the disjunction between the individual and his collective destiny, between individual and social power. This "crisis language" seeks to be effective insofar as it reinforces images of one's self and identities that could never be better expressed than during tribulations. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1990_num_118_1_4668 |
