“Terralatos”, qualitative analysis of biographic al stories within the context of space crisis

Authors

  • Linda Schilling Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Abstract

The present thesis develops an investigation and methodology for studying territories under significant changes that cause trauma, spaces in crisis that happen when an individual by the actions of a specific event changes his way to inhabit it, in order to overcome diverse obstacles caused by new programmatics and territorial limits. In the research stage a set of questions is developed for the construction of theoretical background that gives a first und erstanding about the idea of landscape and its relationship with man in the context of an event caused by a natural disaster, then in the analysis stage, this relationship is qualitatively questioned through the narrative evidence that generates, in particular that of the biographical storytelling , under the premise: if space is a lived place, the narratives of its inhabitants are the substrate th at incorporates the different contingencies of space in crisis, narratives in their different manifestations overcome the event itself giving evidence of the relationship of people with this new space. Situating the analysis in a real study field, where the trauma of the past earthquake still remains, San Pedro de la Paz in Concepción is visited during September of 2010 for the collecting of interviews, a data collection resource that allows to obtain information from first hand of a situated fact, singular information, territory bound, the info obtained by the interviews is testimony that in the conjunction between event and individual, space appears, the info is later put under a series of methodological procedures of coding and graphic representation, and the findings presented in the final discussion.

Keywords:

storytelling, space crisis, narrative evidence, qualitative analysis