JEUDI 16 NOVEMBRE 2017 – 13H30-16H30
Greg Bankoff, University of Hull
Living with the Volcano: Mt Mayon and co-volcanic communities in the Philippines
Rich volcanic soils have long attracted human settlements which have traded the risk of eruption against the benefits of higher agricultural yields. Yet little research has been done on the manner in which societies have normalized the risks and adapted to living in close proximity to volcanoes, or how those modifications, in turn, might have influenced the effects of an eruption and the consequent hazards. That is how people have co-evolved with volcanoes, to create “co-volcanic societies”. Mt. Mayon, in southern Luzon is among the most active of volcanoes in the Philippines, having erupted at least 49 times over the last four centuries. This paper offers a preliminary examination of a number of interrelated questions to do with how societal responses to volcanoes have developed over time, the differing impact of historical eruptions on communities, the role of politics and religion in influencing community vulnerability and resilience, the way progressive human modifications of the landscape affect volcanic hazard, and the manner in which painfully learnt human adaptations to volcanic risks are eventually ignored and cause societal maladaptations.
Greg Bankoff est professeur d’histoire moderne à l’université de Hull au Royaume-Uni. Spécialiste de l’histoire coloniale des Philippines et l’un des principaux acteurs du développement de l’histoire environnementale de l’Asie du Sud-Est, et au-delà, depuis les années 2000. Il travaille aujourd’hui sur le rôle des cataclysmes sur les sociétés humaines, sur la gestion des ressources et des risques, sur les conséquences environnementales des conflits, sur les relations humain-animal et sur le développement de la science coloniale.
Il a publié plus d’une centaine d’articles et près d’une quinzaine d’ouvrages dont
– Greg Bankoff and Joe Christensen (eds.) Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
– Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper (eds.) Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction. New York and London: Routledge, 2015.
– Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard (eds.) A History of Natural Resources in Asia: The Wealth of Nature. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.
– Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Thea Hilhorst (eds.), Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People. London: Earthscan, 2004.
– Greg Bankoff, Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines. London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003.
Anne-Valérie Schweyer, CASE, CNRS/EHESS/INALCO
1471, les conséquences de la prise de Vijaya pour les Chams
Anne-Valérie Schweyer est chargée de recherche au CNRS, membre du Centre Asie du Sud-Est. Historienne et archéologue, spécialisée sur le Champa ancien, elle travaille actuellement sur le projet « Patrimoine Cham des provinces de Thua Thiên-Huê et Quang Tri, Vietnam ».
Elle est notamment l’auteure de Le Viêt Nam ancien, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2005.
