Abstract

VILLAGRAN VALENZUELA, Loreto et al. Stormfires in La Palma, Chile: Shared Meanings Emerging from a Post-disaster Community Intervention. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2022, vol.30, n.2, pp.67-95.  Epub Mar 27, 2023. ISSN 0121-3261.  https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.30.2.307.141.

Socio-environmental disasters affect rural areas unequally, compared to urban areas. This reality makes the mobilization of community resources essential when facing these events. The objective of this study was to analyze the construction of meanings derived from the process of community intervention after a disaster (forest fires) between the La Palma community and the Tierra de Esperanza Foundation team, posing as a research question: What shared meanings emerge from the intervention process experienced by the La Palma community and the intervention team? The study had a phenomenological design, using interpretative discourse analysis. The results show the emergence of categories linked to identity processes, rurality, and the unfolding of psychosocial processes during the intervention experience, linked to community coping, social support, the key role of female leadership, and community learning. It is discussed how the awareness of this rural community increased its capacity for agency in the face of events with little government support.

Keywords : psychosocial intervention; community participation; disaster; reconstruction.

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