We Are All Survivors

Carl Lindahl is Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor in English at the University of Houston, cofounder of the disaster response project Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, and founder of the earthquake response project Memwa Ayisyen / Haitian Memory. He is author (with B. J. Ancelet and M. Gaudet) of Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita.Michael Dylan Foster is Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. He is author of The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore and co-editor (with Lisa Gilman) of UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage.Kate Parker Horigan is Associate Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University. She is author of Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative.

As catastrophes proliferate around us, We Are All Survivors provides a timely, intimate, and empathetic look at disasters and recovery. Written by a group of outstanding folklorists, most of whom have themselves faced the devastation of traumatic events, this volume explores the role folkloristics has played and can play in disaster stricken communities. We Are All Survivors is a book of thought, methodological skill, and heart.- Diane Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University This book is a must-read not only for ethnographers and researchers working with disaster survivors, but also for academics who seek to become more empathetic and more community-oriented researchers.- Nana Kaneko - Smithsonian Cutural Rescue Initiative (JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE)

• Preface1. Introduction: We Are All Survivors, by Carl Lindahl2. Into the Bullring: The Significance of "Empathy" after the Earthquake, by Yutaka Suga3. Rebuilding and Reconnecting After Disaster: Listening to Older Adults, by Yoko Taniguchi4. The Story of Cultural Assets and their Rescue: A First-Hand Report from Tohoku, by Kōji Katō5. Critical Empathy: A Survivor's Study of Disaster, by Kate Parker Horigan6. Empathy and Speaking Out, by Amy Shuman7. The Intangible Lightness of Heritage, by Michael Dylan Foster8. Documenting Disaster Folklore in the Eye of the Storm: Six Months After María, by Gloria M. Colom BrañaConclusion: The COVID-19 Pandemic and "Folklife's First Responders," by Georgia Ellie Dassler and Kate Parker Horigan