Disaster Prevention and Management
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A stranger with your door key: are we mistaking alienation for place attachment?
Wesley CheekScholars of disaster have discussed how place attachment affects the disaster landscape. The rupture of self from home, of familiar into strange and disconnected is explored…
DRR pioneers: interview with Ben Wisner
Ben WisnerThe transcript provides an overview of the development of the field and changing paradigms in this regard.
Raised under bad stars: negotiating a culture of disaster preparedness
Daniel StarostaThe ways communities have regarded disasters and natural hazards in the cultural sphere can provide a lens to inform the understanding of their ability to withstand shocks and the…
Partnerships in the recovery planning process: lessons from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and Irma
Ashlyn Tom, Alice KimTo assess which partnerships were most critical during the recovery planning process following Hurricanes Maria and Irma. We discuss the roles and impact of different types of…
Adaptive innovation and ethical dilemmas: a participatory action research study amongst cyclone-impacted households in Tamil Nadu, India
Sunil D. Santha, Devisha Sasidevan, Atul Raman, Khadeeja Naja Ali, Soofiya Yoosuf, Deepankar Panda, Gauri ShenoyThis paper showcases how the PAR embedded in posthumanist perspectives enabled us to navigate several complexities in the field through methodological situatedness and pluralism…
Extractivism and the engendering of disasters: disaster risk creation in the era of the Anthropocene
Sarah BradshawThis paper argues that extractivist logic creates the environmental conditions that produce “natural” hazards and also the human conditions that produce vulnerability, which…
The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF
Mona Harb, Sophie Bloemeke, Sami Atallah, Sami ZoughaibUsing critical disaster studies and state theory, we assess the disaster aid platform named Lebanon Reconstruction, Reform and Recovery Framework (3RF) that was put in place by…
Problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies
Jake Rom CadagThis paper is a critique of Western modernity and the problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies. It criticizes metanarratives and grand theories of…
Disasters “Through the looking glass”
Jason Von Meding, Carla Brisotto, Haleh Mehdipour, Colin LaschThis paper will challenge normative disaster studies and practice by arguing that thriving communities require the pursuit of imperfection and solidarity. The authors use Lewis…
“Respect existence or expect … resilience?” epistemic reflexivity towards liberated disaster studies
Ricardo FuentealbaThis paper proposes a way of reflexing on how we think within critical disaster studies. It focuses on the biases and unthought dimensions of two concepts – resilience and…
Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies
Maria Koreti Sang Yum, Roger C. BaarsResearch in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners…
Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science
Victor MarcheziniThe question of “why we are in disaster studies” can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive…
Assembling fire: beyond engineering solutions
Sandra Vaiciulyte, Helen Underhill, Elizabeth ReddyFires have the potential to destroy, resulting in the loss of property and livelihoods, as well as injury, death and repeated trauma for those who are already vulnerable. However…
Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction
Minh Tran, Dayoon KimThe authors revisit the notion of co-production, highlight more critical and re-politicized forms of co-production and introduce three principles for its operationalization. The…
Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand
Kaori KitagawaThis exploratory study discusses the policy learning process of the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy.
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hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju