We present some preliminary data related to a broader project conducted in collaboration with the Fondazione Vajont 9 Ottobre 1963 and the University of Padova. The project focuses on how survivors and their descendents narrate their stories about the disaster and how they coped with it. The disaster hit in different ways two types of populations – Longarone, Erto and Casso, characterized also by socio-cultural and geographical differences. The general goal of the project is to identify: how the two populations conceptualize the disaster; how they represent themselves in the event; how they view short and long term effects such as consequences at a personal level (psychological, physical, about lifestyle) and about the environment; and how the survivors transmitted their memories to the future generations. The interest is to compare the two populations, given the relevant differences of their involvement in the disaster, and the narratives of their descendants. In this work we examined a portion of the data, considering survivors’ memory and representation of causality, in terms of (a) precocious recognition of signs cueing to the disaster; (b) causal attribution to physical and/or human agents; (c) links to the predictability of the disaster and degree of certainty; (d) type of source of information about causes; (e) ideas about whether the disaster could be avoided. Differences between groups were analysed making reference to the presence of the PTSD.
Disastro del Vajont: causalità nei racconti di alcuni sopravvissuti
RACCANELLO, Daniela
2007-01-01
Abstract
We present some preliminary data related to a broader project conducted in collaboration with the Fondazione Vajont 9 Ottobre 1963 and the University of Padova. The project focuses on how survivors and their descendents narrate their stories about the disaster and how they coped with it. The disaster hit in different ways two types of populations – Longarone, Erto and Casso, characterized also by socio-cultural and geographical differences. The general goal of the project is to identify: how the two populations conceptualize the disaster; how they represent themselves in the event; how they view short and long term effects such as consequences at a personal level (psychological, physical, about lifestyle) and about the environment; and how the survivors transmitted their memories to the future generations. The interest is to compare the two populations, given the relevant differences of their involvement in the disaster, and the narratives of their descendants. In this work we examined a portion of the data, considering survivors’ memory and representation of causality, in terms of (a) precocious recognition of signs cueing to the disaster; (b) causal attribution to physical and/or human agents; (c) links to the predictability of the disaster and degree of certainty; (d) type of source of information about causes; (e) ideas about whether the disaster could be avoided. Differences between groups were analysed making reference to the presence of the PTSD.
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