Social Effects of Floods on Mobilities: a comparison between short-term and long-term perspectives
Résumé
This chapter focuses on what the breakdown situation of a flash flood creates from a social point of view. This questioning addresses both the short time of the event – during which the aim is to understand how inhabitants react at the moment of the crisis – and the longer time of a life – during which the aim is to understand how the idea of flooding influences residential choices and the ways of living. We therefore articulate our analyses over two timescales: that of human decisions, collected through narratives of the actions undertaken during the crisis (short time), and that of residential trajectories, collected using the method of life narratives (long time). This is done in order to highlight the forms of convergence in the social logic uncovered at these two timescales, and notably that of the “power of the daily routine”.