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Community and Physician, vol.39, no.6, pp.462-477, 2024 (Scopus)
Social memory refers to a state of awareness that is produced collectively and is associated with remembering or forgetting social incidents. Disasters experienced by societies leave deep scars in both individual and collective memory. The loss of life and destruction as a result of earthquakes in Turkey cause the loss of economic, social and cultural relations, identity and sense of belonging. Social earthquake memory carries the past knowledge and experiences by transmitting from generation to generation to the present. In this context, it supports the development of social resilience sensitive to vulnerable groups by guiding organization and provision of health services in earthquake preparedness, emergency response, recovery and reconstruction processes. This study aims to discuss how health and social problems related to earthquakes are reminded in movies, as a memory place that ensures the construction, preservation and continuity of memory, by examining it sociologically in the context of the relationship between social earthquake memory and social resilience. For this purpose, the movies in which the earthquake is directly or indirectly involved are analyzed thematically through visual document analysis. The movies, which are analyzed on the basis of class and social inequalities and health care services according to the themes of pre-earthquake, earthquake process and post-earthquake, reveal the historical perspective on earthquake and its relationship with urbanization policies and reproduction areas.