第69回総合防災セミナー

We are pleased to announce the 69th Sogo Bosai Seminar (Mar 3) as follows. We look forward to your kind participation.
Seminar will be delivered in English.
 
[Title]
The neglected community power–new immigrants’ and migrant workers’ disaster literacy and resilience: a communication approach
 
[Speaker]
Prof. Chiung-wen Julia HSU, College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
（國立政治大學傳播學院教授・京都大学防災研究所巨大災害研究センター客員教授）
 
[Date]
Mar 3, 15:00-17:00
 
[Venue & Registration]
Seminar will be held in the hybrid manner (virtual and face-to-face). The venue: S519D, Kyoto University Uji campus.
 
Please kindly register your attendance here by Mar 2, noon.
https://forms.gle/jqT8zch6fkXALeKf8
 
[Abstract]
Human resilience has been investigated from many disciplinary perspectives. Many factors proved to influence people’s resilience and evaluation built to enhance resilience for disasters. In disaster research, resilience has been identified as an outcome and a process. As a process, research pays attention to the capacity of individuals and people’s rights on variety inequality, socioeconomic, gender, or ethnic. New immigrants and oversea workers are often categorized as vulnerable groups and wait for help.
 
This ongoing study adopts Buzzanell’s communication theory of resilience, taking resilience as dynamic, integrated, and unfolding over time and through events. The in-depth interviews and participatory observation are adopted to find new immigrants and migrant workers’ resilience from events and hardships they have encountered and link to the disaster scenarios, which helps them to respond to disasters appropriately. In addition, they can contribute back to the community after gaining the know-how and confidence in their efficacy and capacity for disaster. This result accounts for the different perspectives on the concept of resilience theoretically and provides the policy implications to transform the vulnerable into volunteers.
 
[Short bio]
Dr. Julia Chiung-wen HSU
 
Hsu is a professor at National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan. Hsu earned her Ph.D. degree in communication at SUNY-Buffalo in 2003. As a former TV journalist with the China Television Company, Hsu covered many earthquakes, typhoons, and traumatic accidents. Thus, her research interests span broadcasting journalism, trauma and journalism, disaster and communication interdisciplinary study. Dr. Hsu has published journal articles in Natural Hazards, Disaster Prevention and Management, Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, Hermes, Online Information Review, Mass Communication Research, etc. She is also awarded several fellowships, including the Fulbright Senior Scholar, the Japanese Studies Fellowship from Japan Foundation, the Dart Academic Fellowship from Columbia University, and the Visiting Research Fellowship from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. Professor Hsu’s efforts do not focus on academic research only. She participates in community work with her research findings and puts the theory into practice. Her recent fieldwork is to help new immigrants and migrant workers reflectively examine their process of developing resilience, specifically for the disaster scenario.