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Typhoon Yolanda and post-disaster resilience: problems and challenges

Eadie, Pauline

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Typhoon Yolanda hit the Visayas region of the Philippines on 8 November 2013. With wind speeds reaching 315 km/h, the storm remains one of the strongest and most destructive typhoons ever to make landfall (Santos, 2013). This article focuses on how the concept of ‘resilience’ was articulated and experienced post-Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) with reference to the rebuilding and rehabilitation efforts in Tacloban City. Tacloban is the administrative center of the Eastern Visayas (Region VIII) in the Philippines and one of the most heavily urbanized areas to be devastated by Yolanda. This city was chosen as the focus for this article as it became the ‘exemplary center’ of the relief and rehabilitation effort. It stands as a ‘microcosm’ (Geertz, 1980: 13) of the institutional and logistical practices common in urban lower and middle-income post-disaster scenarios. Arguably, these practices perpetuate social inequality, operate against a backdrop of ‘status pride’ (Geertz, 1980: 13) and re-materialize power in ways that consolidate the status quo and profit seeking norms.

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Eadie, P. (2019). Typhoon Yolanda and post-disaster resilience: problems and challenges. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 60(1), 94-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12215

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 16, 2018
Online Publication Date Feb 27, 2019
Publication Date Apr 1, 2019
Deposit Date Sep 17, 2018
Publicly Available Date Feb 28, 2021
Journal Asia Pacific Viewpoint
Print ISSN 1360-7456
Electronic ISSN 1467-8373
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 60
Issue 1
Pages 94-107
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12215
Keywords Geography, Planning and Development; Development
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1077469
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/apv.12215
Additional Information This is the peer reviewed version of the following article Eadie, P. (2019), Typhoon Yolanda and post‐disaster resilience: Problems and challenges. Asia Pac. Viewp.. doi:10.1111/apv.12215, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/apv.12215 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Contract Date Sep 17, 2018

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