ABSTRACT This study examines the long-term recovery and resilience processes of households on the New Jersey coast after Hurricane Sandy. Based on theoretical frameworks of community ecology, communication ecology, and the Communication Theory of Resilience, we analyzed focus group interviews and timeline data to examine the sources and forms of support and barrier and provide a detailed account of the ways in which individuals engaged with support and barrier sources. Results show that resilience was enacted through the process of mobilizing and improvising networks of informal and institutional ties, sometimes joining them, to access resources. Communicative processes were central to improvisation, and ineffective communication and coordination constituted a majority of barriers in accessing social support for recovery. Results also detail how processes varied temporally. This study contributes to the literature on resilience as a communicative process, with improvisation at its core, that is enacted through interacting informal, institutional, and physical systems in communities.

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桑迪飓风过后长期恢复的支持和障碍：即兴发挥抗灾力的沟通过程

摘要这项研究考察了飓风桑迪袭击后新泽西州沿海地区家庭的长期恢复和复原力过程。基于社区生态学，传播生态学和抗灾力传播理论的理论框架，我们分析了焦点小组访谈和时间表数据，以检查支持和障碍的来源和形式，并详细说明个人参与支持的方式和障碍源。结果表明，通过动员和临时建立非正式和机构联系网络（有时也加入其中）来获取资源，可以增强抵御能力。沟通过程是即兴创作的核心，沟通和协调不力构成了获得社会支持以恢复的主要障碍。结果还详细说明了过程如何随时间变化。这项研究为以复原力为沟通过程的文献做出了贡献，即兴发挥了核心作用，即通过社区中非正式，制度和自然系统之间的相互作用来制定的。