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Temporary Housing After the Earthquake Based on Indigenous Iranian Materials; Another look at the actants and Issues
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Molood Khosravi  , Hassan Zolfagharzadeh * , Seyed Rahman Eghbali |
| Imam Khomeini International University |
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Objective: Given the widespread seismicity of most regions of Iran and the necessity of paying attention to cultural adequacy, usage of temporary housing based on indigenous materials includes known and unknown components, covering complex and diverse human, non-human, and discursive elements witch requires in-depth study to identify and analyze the sensitive and complex relationships between the elements. Over that background, The purpose of this research is to identify the main actants affecting the usage of indigenous Iranian materials in temporary housing after the earthquake.
Method: Due to the complex research situation, this study used the Situational Analysis method and two different ways for collecting data – Selective Sources and Systematic Review search in three Academic Databases (four separated classes). In this method, after refining the data based on identified themes, mapping - coding and categorizing using Maxqda software - and Analyzing((tinkering, adding, deleting, organizing) elements using Excel software in each class, continued until the issues were finalized (theoretical saturation). Then, the elements resulting from the integration of the four final situational maps were combined and modified to yield the overall situational map. Afterwards the situational actants were extracted using content analysis (interaction and discourse) of the elements participating in each actant.
Results: The total situational map based on the 10 final situational issues, and the separation and assignment of situational issues and elements to the 10 situational actants, led to the drawing map of worlds and arenas. Then, a paradigmatic (contextual) model was obtained based on determining the "phenomenon" of "temporary housing after the earthquake based on indigenous Iranian materials" and differentiation the content of the subissues of the 10 actants into five groups of "contextual condition" [spatial/spatial elements and non-human actants/elements], "causal condition" [political/economic elements, actors/individuals and silent Actors/Actants], "intervening condition" [related discourses (experiences/reports)], " Interaction Strategy" [Discursive Constructions of Individual and/or collective human actors, silent agents/actors, and Discursive Construction of Nonhuman Actants[, and "consequences" [collective human actors /elements, and , Sociocultural/Symbolic Elements] based on the content of the subissues constituting the actants.
Conclusions: “Discursive Constructions of Individual and collective human actors”, “Discursive Construction of Nonhuman Actants”, “actors/individuals” “non-human actants/elements” and “political/economic elements” in order of having the largest number actants, affecting the usage of temporary housing after the earthquake based on indigenous Iranian materials, witch the largest number of issues that make them up are, in order: ”Construction design and planning”, “Managers and policymakers”, “Temporary housing”, “Climate and environmental factors”, “Earthquake people (users)” and “Construction technology and implementation”. The acquired paradigmatic model also clarifies the categorization of actants relations with the phenomenon as well. |
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| Keywords: temporary housing after earthquake, indigenous materials, temporary housing, cultural adequacy, indigenous materials of Iran. |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2025/12/28 | Accepted: 2026/03/15 | Published: 2026/03/15
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