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Main Conference

Type of Paper

Roundtable

Abstract

How do disaster survivors make sense of their lives? Drawing on three studies, we use the concepts of extended and relational self to understand how disaster survivors reconstruct their identities.

Keywords

natural disasters, survivors, identity

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Rebuilding Identity After a Natural or Human Generated Disaster

How do disaster survivors make sense of their lives? Drawing on three studies, we use the concepts of extended and relational self to understand how disaster survivors reconstruct their identities.