Un espace social « viable » dans un environnement « à risque » ? Réinstallation post-catastrophe et relations à l’espace sur le volcan Merapi (Java, Indonésie)

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the territoriality’s modes of the social space of a village located in the Merapi volcano uplands (Java in Indonesia) and recently resettled after a major eruption in 2010. It seeks to show how the post-disaster recovery context —characterized by the necessities related to the reconstruction of the village’s settlement and the recovery of the livelihoods of its inhabitants — relies on specific modes of relations with volcanic environment. These analysis will allow us to explain why, even after the resettlement of this village outside the labeled “at risk” areas by Indonesian disaster and risk management authorities, inhabitants continue to maintain intense and daily ties with the uplands. In doing so, we will be able to understand why, according to the points of view of the inhabitants, the volcano’s uplands spaces are perceived more from the point of view of their livability rather than from the perspective of the danger of volcanic hazards.

Keywords

• resettlement
• volcanic environment
• post-disaster reconstruction
• territoriality