Hidup Bersama Risiko Bencana: Konstruksi Ruang dalam Perspektif Ruang Relasional

Abstract

Community in Disaster-Prone Region (DPR) tends to have a high geographical inertia and have the preference of "living with risk". They consider their environment "not problematic" and establish systems of religious beliefs and practices of ecological "mesticating" danger. Using Lefebvre’s conception of space production and Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, this paper explores how communities in Merapi DPR live with risk, adapting to evolving volcano eruption by relying on social network and extending it with wider communities outside the DPR. In this context, the network can bridge the isolation of an area thus the proximity to the source of the threat does not automatically increase vulnerabilities and disaster risks of the communities.