Living with floods: social practices and transformations of flood management in Chiapas, Mexico

In: Erdkundliches Wissen v.165

Abstract

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENT -- TABLE OF FIGURES -- TABLE OF TABLES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 TOPIC AND RESEARCH QUESTION -- 2.1 PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES OF INTEREST -- 2.2 STATE OF THE ART - FLOOD RELATED RESEARCH -- 2.3 CHALLENGES IN DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN MEXICO -- 2.4 RESEARCH QUESTION -- 3 INTRODUCING THE CASE STUDY REGION - SELECTED SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS IN A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- 3.1 STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE USUMACINTA RIVER IN MAYAN TIMES -- 3.2 ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN COLONIAL TIMES AND AFTER -- 3.3 POPULATION DYNAMICS, FIGHT FOR LAND AND MAJOR POLITICAL DYNAMICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY -- 3.4 RECENT PROCESSES OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DYNAMICS OF RESISTANCE -- 4 SOCIAL PRACTICES, RISK AND SPACE - THEORETICAL BASIS -- 4.1 PARADIGMATIC AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL BASIS -- 4.2 SOCIAL PRACTICE THEORY -- 4.3 THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF RISK -- 4.4 THEORETICAL ACCOUNTS OF SPACE -- 4.5 INTEGRATION OF PRACTICES, RISK AND SPACE INTO THE RISKSCAPES CONCEPT -- 5 METHODOLOGY -- 5.1 POSITIONALITY, ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND QUESTIONS OF OWNERSHIP -- 5.2 GROUNDED THEORY AND LINK TO TWO "ALTERNATIVE EPISTEMOLOGIES" -- 5.3 A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH -- 5.4 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND SOCIAL GEOGRAPHICAL METHODOLOGY -- 5.5 DESIGN OF THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PROCESS AND METHODS OF DATA GENERATION -- 5.6 AUDIO-VISUAL METHODS -- 5.7 INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL METHODS -- 5.8 METHODS APPLIED IN ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION -- 6 SOCIAL PRACTICES OF LIVING WITH FLOODS PERFORMED BY VILLAGE INHABITANTS -- 6.1 LOCALLY IDENTIFIED TOPICS AND CONCEPTS -- 6.2 IDENTIFICATION OF KEY SOCIAL PRACTICES -- 6.3 FLOOD, FLOOD RISK OR LIVING WITH FLOODS -- 6.4 LIVELIHOOD, THE "GOOD LIFE" AND DEVELOPMENT -- 6.5 CREATING AND PERFORMING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES.