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AbstractCentral to disaster management discourse today are the concepts of risk and vulnerability. Seen from the technical perspective, risk is understood as the probability of a negative event and its occurrence is largely dependent on peoples vulnerability. Attention is devoted to minimize physical harm and educate those deemed vulnerable. Although this concept has significantly contributed to the social understanding of disaster, I argue that this technical perspective of risk is inadequate to explain local realities where natural hazard is ingrained in peoples way of life. To illustrate that argument, a three-week fieldwork in Turgo hamlet, Yogyakarta, Indonesia was carried out. This thesis explores how the Javanese worldview shape young peoples risk perception and calculation related to the volcano. This is done by referring to concepts of slamet or well-being and nasib or fate. Informed by the Javanese view of reality, the volcano is accepted as a risk that needs to be addressed in the natural, social and spiritual realms. At times, young people are expressing ambivalence concerning the role of Javanese worldview in protecting themselves. Yet, in their calculation of risk, young peoples ultimate goal is to achieve a condition of slamet.Keywords: disaster, Java, risk perception, volcano, vulnerability, worldview, young people

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Urban redevelopment processes in Bogotá, Colombia are now part of the political agenda and seem to be unstoppable. As a result, a handful of programs aiming at transforming obsolete city spaces into vital corners have originated over the last decade. This is the case of Progresa Fenicia, an “inclusive” revitalization program in the city center led, since 2010, by an unusual developer: Universidad de los Andes (Uniandes), a private school. The implementation of this Program, which implies the transition of its residents from an old neighborhood to a redeveloped area, launched the discussion on the relationships and meanings between the local people and the environment. This thesis examines the perceived relationship between community members with the environment in terms of the meaning they give to their space and networks. Additionally, the research tries to understand the kind of struggles the residents of Fenicia are facing in relation to the urban revitalization process that has already started in their barrio: their place. I addressed this challenge using the concept of “inscribed spaces”, which focuses on the relationship between humans and the environments they occupy (Low and Lawrence-Zúñiga: 2012:13). I was interested in how the Fenicia residents understand and give meaning to the space they live in and the relationships that this process entails (ibid: 14). The focus was placed in how the residents transform the meaning of “space” into “place” and how they imagine the renewed area. By mirroring on local perceptions, memories, discourses and narratives in regards to the neighborhood, I tried to identify key variables that the developer (the private university in this case) might have overlooked in previous phases of the project. But if taken into account, they could contribute to the establishment of new-meaningful relationships with the places the residents will occupy in the renewed area.It is concluded that Fenicia is the result of ...