“THAT WAS MY COMMUNITY”: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF RECOVERY COMMUNICATION AND THE CULTURE OF COMMUNITY WITHIN THE DIASPORA OF SURVIVORS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA

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dc.contributor.advisorVardeman-Winter, Jennifer
dc.contributor.advisorYamasaki, Jill
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLindahl, Carl
dc.creatorLyn, Robyn
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-14T02:39:15Z
dc.date.available2016-03-14T02:39:15Z
dc.date.createdDecember 2015
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.date.updated2016-03-14T02:39:15Z
dc.description.abstractIn 2005, the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston (SKRH) project formed in response to the largest sudden diaspora in United States history, which drove residents of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama into the Houston area. Within the SKRH framework, survivor-narrators and survivor-interviewers engaged as experts in collective learning and co-creation of new cultural knowledge by participating in social therapeutic communities (TCs) through survivor-to-survivor (S2S) unstructured interviews. Recorded, coded, and archived, these stories became a means to create new community and cultural understanding during recovery helping victims cope and heal through social connection. In this essay, I engage a qualitative culture-centered approach utilizing narrative inquiry of the SKRH interviews. I investigate what we, as individuals, families, neighborhoods, communities, grassroots organizations, non-profits, NGO’s, corporations, government agencies, healthcare providers, social workers, therapists, et al., can understand about the unique culture of survivor community created by and for victims of natural disasters. In addition, I examine the magnitude of the survivors’ losses, how to be culturally sensitive to their comprehensive needs, how to actively and culturally listen to shared narratives, how to engage in best practices for post-crisis recovery communication, and how to help survivors regain a sense of community and support during rebound, recovery, and rebuilding cycles.
dc.description.departmentCommunication, Jack J. Valenti School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-4967-3225
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/1271
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectRecovery Communication
dc.subjectSurvivor-Centered Responses
dc.subjectSurvivor-to-Survivor Communication
dc.subjectHurricane Katrina
dc.subjectHurricane Ike
dc.subjectHurricanes
dc.subjectQualitative
dc.subjectSubjective
dc.subjectReflexive
dc.subjectCommunities
dc.subjectNarrative Analysis
dc.subjectCulture-centered listening
dc.subjectNatural disasters
dc.title“THAT WAS MY COMMUNITY”: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF RECOVERY COMMUNICATION AND THE CULTURE OF COMMUNITY WITHIN THE DIASPORA OF SURVIVORS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentCommunication, Jack J. Valenti School of
thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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