This is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for November 2014.

Date & Time: 27 November (Thu) 2014, 16:00~

Place: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University

Speaker: Dr. Kannapa Pongponrat, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at College of Innovation of Thammasat University, Visiting Research Scholar at CSEAS

Title: Social Vulnerability of Marginalized People in Times of Disaster: A Case Study of the Great East-Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami 2011

Abstract:
Natural disasters have attracted global community to take serious attention for decades. Through natural disasters of the past, evidences were recorded with studies as critical human security to be considered. Although Japan has a long history of disaster experienced with a comprehensive disaster preparedness plans and management, the Great East-Japan Earthquake (GEJET) generated massive devastating Tsunami attacked the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011. This led to a catastrophic destruction in coastal areas of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. Besides massive physical destruction, GEJET generated large socio-economic impact on people to put them into vulnerability. Among tsunami victims, there are marginalized people who are struggling in their life as ‘migrants’ who ‘experienced tsunami’. This so called ‘double vulnerability’ which requires attention from society to concern on their lives, needs and problems as they are members of society with equal rights. Findings from the research provide understanding on pre-exiting socio-cultural conditions of Thai women in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, which leading to maximize degrees of social vulnerability in times of disaster.

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