Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 33 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Introduction to the special issue: liberating disaster studies

Camillo Boano, Ksenia Chmutina

Problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies

Jake Rom Cadag

This 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…

A stranger with your door key: are we mistaking alienation for place attachment?

Wesley Cheek

Scholars 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…

Extractivism and the engendering of disasters: disaster risk creation in the era of the Anthropocene

Sarah Bradshaw

This paper argues that extractivist logic creates the environmental conditions that produce “natural” hazards and also the human conditions that produce vulnerability, which…

“Respect existence or expect … resilience?” epistemic reflexivity towards liberated disaster studies

Ricardo Fuentealba

This 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…

Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science

Victor Marchezini

The 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 Reddy

Fires 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 Kim

The 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…

Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies

Maria Koreti Sang Yum, Roger C. Baars

Research in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners…

The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF

Mona Harb, Sophie Bloemeke, Sami Atallah, Sami Zoughaib

Using 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…

Disasters “Through the looking glass”

Jason Von Meding, Carla Brisotto, Haleh Mehdipour, Colin Lasch

This paper will challenge normative disaster studies and practice by arguing that thriving communities require the pursuit of imperfection and solidarity. The authors use Lewis…