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Disaster Recovery Governance of Japan and International Cooperation: Transnationalism and the Trans-localization

Kim Young-Geun 1

1고려대학교

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The purpose of this paper is to overview Japanese concept of disaster recovery and seek a way for an international cooperation. As the presence of disaster is immanent in the global risk-society, this paper aims to analyze transnational and trans-local activities along with socio-cultural, economic, and political transformations and their process under the global risk-society. Furthermore, this paper contemplates ‘local power’ which is related to the transnationalism, or trans-localization. Therefore, this paper provides issues to be solved and theorizes them by articulating the mechanism of cooperation and confrontation surrounding disaster governance of the global era. The analytic frame of paper introduces the concept of transnationalism and pro-geopolitics and analyzes a structural transformation regarding disaster recovery and revitalization of local area in Asia. As this paper introduces the ‘reversed image’ in the era of transnationalism from the traditional view of government-led process in disaster recovery, the paper presumes that diverse local actors and responses from disaster sight practically give their influence on the state-level of ‘disaster governance’, furthermore, the transnationalization. Thus, the paper attempts to reflect Japanese post-disaster lessons: social fluctuation, risk responses, and recovery efforts, from mega-disaster (1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake & 3.11 East Japan Earthquake) to transnational responses and the local revitalization. By focusing on the trilateral interaction between the local, government, and state, this paper implicates that theoretical verification and a need of new approach for the revitalization from disaster are required to solve surrounding problems from ‘series of complex risk’. A response and solution for the local recovery process must be shared among international community and the construction of a cooperative system is significant. The theory of transnational disaster recovery and the role of academism from the view of disaster study for the revitalization are suggested throughout this paper. Living in the era of transnationalization, the humanity must response to the ‘safety revolution’.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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