Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

Sajag-Nepal's "Notes from the Field" is a three-episode podcast for "Disasters: Deconstructed" This special episode will introduce listeners to the work and scope of the "Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain in Nepal" project. Most importantly it will explore Sajag-Nepal project's approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research on multi-hazards and risk chains in Nepal.  In our final episode (of 3) we will focus on Slope Monitoring Equipment, which aims to study slope movement. Additionally, we will engage in discussions with community members from Bhotekoshi to better understand their perspectives on slope movement. The goal of this episode is to facilitate a dialogue between scientific knowledge and community insights regarding slope movement.  We hope you enjoy the discussion!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Hosts: Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Dipak Basnet, Anuradha Puri & Tek Bahadur Dong   Speakers: Dr. Megh Raj Dhital, Dr. Nick Rosser, Dr. Mukta Lama, Ramesh Shrestha (PhD student at Geography Department, Durham University, UK) the participants from Marming workshop, Bhotekoshi, Sindhupalchowk   Translation of the Nepal folk song  The landslide occurs every year.  What is the government doing?   We are worried- where to go,   What to eat, what to wear.   Landslides bring sorrow.  While the government watches,  landslides have increased.   We are worried- where to go,   What to eat, what to wear.     Acknowledgement   We would like to thank the people of Marmin in Bhote Kosi Rural Municipality who kindly participated in our workshop and who gave their time to be interviewed for our project and the podcast. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.  We also acknowledge our colleagues at Social Science Baha for their time to give a voice over in the Nepali interview recording   Prasansa Thapa  Sujit Maharjan  Rajib Neupane  Sanjit Shrestha  Sachin Karki  Sakar Sapkota    Further Info: Sajag-Nepal: Twitter, project website  Social Science Baha: Website, Twitter   Sajag-Nepal project film produced by BBC Media Action (Film on Phagam) 

Sajag-Nepal's "Notes from the Field" is a three-episode podcast for "Disasters: Deconstructed" This special episode will introduce listeners to the work and scope of the "Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain in Nepal" project. Most importantly it will explore Sajag-Nepal project's approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research on multi-hazards and risk chains in Nepal.  Welcome to Episode 2 (of 3), where we will explore the understanding of multi-hazards from the perspectives of both the local community and scientists. To do this, we will take the episode to Temal and engage in conversations with local community members to gain insights into their understanding of hazards/multi-hazards. Additionally, we will interview anthropologist Mukta Tamang, geographer Gopi Basyal and geologist Megh Dhital on the topic.  We hope you enjoy the discussion!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!      Hosts:Tek Bahadur Dong, Anuradha Puri, Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Dipak Basnet, Speakers: Prof. Megh Raj Dhital, Dr. Gopi Krishna Basyal, and Dr. Mukta Singh Lama     Further Info: Sajag-Nepal: Twitter, project website  Social Science Baha: Website, Twitter   Sajag-Nepal project film produced by BBC Media Action (Film on Phagam)  NSET: Website 

Sajag-Nepal's "Notes from the Field" is a three-episode podcast for "Disasters: Deconstructed" This special episode will introduce listeners to the work and scope of the "Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain in Nepal" project. Most importantly it will explore Sajag-Nepal project's approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research on multi-hazards and risk chains in Nepal.  In the first episode, we discuss cascading hazards in Nepal, with a focus on earthquakes and monsoon-triggered hazards like landslides. This episode will center around the project's approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research.  The second episode will explore the understanding of multi-hazards from the perspectives of both the local community and scientists. To do this, we will take the episode to Temal and engage in conversations with local community members to gain insights into their understanding of hazards/multi-hazards. Additionally, we will interview anthropologist Mukta Tamang, geographer Gopi Basyal and geologist Megh Dhital on the topic.  The final episode will focus on Slope Monitoring Equipment, which aims to study slope movement. Additionally, we will engage in discussions with community members from Bhotekoshi to better understand their perspectives on slope movement. The goal of this episode is to facilitate a dialogue between scientific knowledge and community insights regarding slope movement.  We hope you enjoy the discussion!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Hosts: Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Dipak Basnet, Anuradha Puri & Tek Bahadur Dong   Speakers: Dr. Katie Oven, Dr. Amy Johnson, and Dr. Jeevan Baniya    Further Info: Sajag-Nepal: Twitter, project website  Social Science Baha: Website, Twitter   Sajag-Nepal project film produced by BBC Media Action (Film on Phagam) 

Welcome to the final part of our Disasters: Deconstructed mini-series from Fishlake, UK! Thank you so much to Dave Angel for producing this wonderful local artifact, and sharing his creative process with us. I hope you all are inspired as much as we are!!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Dave Angel's contact: d.angel@lboro.ac.uk   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-angel-5444a6226/   Loughborough HOME CDT doctoral research project https://meaningofhome.uk/   The Meaning of Home CDT Podcast: our monthly podcast on the subject of home https://meaningofhome.uk/podcast/  

We are back with Dave Angel for the second episode of our Disasters: Deconstructed mini-series from Fishlake, UK. Thanks for joining us!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

Welcome to the first episode of our Disasters: Deconstructed mini-series from Fishlake, UK. Your host for this series is Dave Angel, a musician-composer who has spent most of his life in the area. The series draws on his PhD work "‘Effing Awful!': Deep, Dirty, Dangerous Water. Developing an audio representational method to develop empathy around post-flood experiences in two South Yorkshire villages." Over to Dave for the mini-series!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information  

Happy New Year and welcome back for Season 9 of Disasters: Deconstructed!!!  We can't wait to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen.  This season we will be exploring local stories through 3 mini-series from around the world. Tune in to hear more about what we have in store :)   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!      Music this week from "Thinking of You" by Oliver Michael. 

We really appreciate you all tuning in for Season 8 of Disasters: Deconstructed! In this Season Wrap we look back at some of the best bits from our discussions and the key themes emerging. Join us again in a few months for Season 9 when we concentrate on local stories from communities living with risk around the world    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Continent" by AMBR. 

Thanks everyone for joining us this season! We have really enjoyed speaking with our incredible guests who taught us about solidarity from so many angles. This is our penultimate episode, and we are super excited to spend it with our season 4 co-host, Darien Alexander Williams! Since he was last on the podcast, Darien completed his doctorate and is an incoming Assistant Prof. at Boston University. As many of you know, he is an urban planner who studies Blackness, Islam and disaster. Being an active part of community in Boston is a priority for him, and we are so glad he joined us to discuss the complicated space of scholar activism. Thanks for listening!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Queer Muslims of Boston   Our guests: Darien Alexander Williams (@nigreaux)   Music this week from "chimera soldiers" by Max H. 

Today we welcome indie singer/songwriter David Rovics to Disasters: Deconstructed! David has produced an incredible body of anti-capitalist and community-grounded work, emerging as a prominent social critic on issues that we care about on DD, militarism, globalisation, environmental crisis, consumerism and gentrification. In this episode we talk about how music can bring people together in struggle! Thanks for listening.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: David's website   Our guests: David Rovics (@drovics)   Music this week from "6 feet under" by John Isaac. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! Today A.J. Faas is joining us to discuss his new book, In the Shadow of Tungurahua, and how some of its key themes link to our season on solidarity. We consider minga, deservingness, and vulnerability - thanks for joining us!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador   Our guests: A.J. Faas (@ajfaas)   Music this week from "Lioness" by Kevin Graham. 

   في هذه الحلقة نواصل مناقشتنا (بالعربية) حول الزلزال المدمر الذي ضرب تركيا وسوريا في فبراير 2023. نتحدث عن آخر الإحصائيات والتحديثات حول الكارثة ، ونناقش مواضيع مهمة مثل انتشار المعلومات كاذبة في أوقات الكوارث. بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، نشرح كيف يمكن للناس معرفة ما إذا كانت منازلهم مصممةضد مثل هذه المخاطر الطبيعية ، ونقدم المشورة للأشخاص الذين يرغبون في بناء أو شراء منازل جديدة في هذا الصدد.   In this episode, we continue our discussion (in Arabic) about the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February 2023. We talk about the latest statistics and updates on the disaster, and we discuss critical topics such as the spread of false information in times of disaster. Additionally, we explain how people can know if their houses are designed to survive such natural hazards, and we give advice to people who want to build or buy new houses in that regard.   عامر حمد عيسى أبو خلف مرشح دكتوراه و باحث مساعد في معهد فلوريدا لمرونة البيئة المبنية. عامر مهندس إنشائي ويبحث في إدارة المخاطر وتصميم السلامة مع التركيز على المخاطر الطبيعية ، والبيئة المبنية ، وإدارة الأزمات ، والتخطيط للطوارئ. عامر أيضًا مؤلف في أهم المجلات العلمية في هذا المجال ، بما في ذلك المجلة الدولية للحد من مخاطر الكوارث ، والوقاية من الكوارث وإدارتها ، والمخاطر الطبيعية مجد برقاش مهندس مدني وطالب دراسات عليا في كلية الأمير حسين بن عبد الله الثاني للدراسات الدولية ، الجامعة الأردنية ، متخصص في حل النزاعات. مجد حاصل على شهادة معهد إدارة المشاريع ولديه أكثر من 12 عامًا من الخبرة في صناعة البناء. عمل مجد في العديد من مشاريع الطاقة النظيفة والنفط والغاز بين الشرق الأوسط وأمريكا الجنوبية   Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience. Amer is a structural engineer and he researches risk management and safety design with a focus on natural hazards, built environment, crisis management, and emergency planning. Amer is also a published author in top journals in the field, including the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Prevention and Management, and Natural Hazards. Majd Bargash is a civil engineer and a grad student at Prince Hussein Bin Abdulla II College of International Studies, University of Jordan, majoring in Conflict Resolution. Majd is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified practitioner and has over 12 years of experience in the construction industry. Majd worked in several clean energy and oil and gas projects between the Middle East and South America     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Our guests: Amer Abukhalaf (@AbukhalafAmer) Majd Bargash (@majdbargash89)   Music this week from "Falling Forward" by Kevin Graham. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! As we continue our exploration of solidarity in season 8, we are really happy to share this conversation we had with Dr Areum Jeong. Areum holds a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her training consists of a thorough grounding in the history of theater and performance, and her work takes a transnational approach to twentieth and twenty-first-century Asian and Asian American cinema, theater and performance. Areum is currently working on an upcoming book on the aftermath of the Sewol ferry disaster. Listen in to this conversation about the Sewol Ferry Disaster and how the victims' families - particularly mothers - have organized and agitated politically using artistic expression.  Thanks to Dr. Jeong for spending time with us!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Beyond the Sewol: Performing acts of activism in South Korea Representing the Unrepresentable in South Korean Activist Performances Dr. Jeong webpage   Our guests: Dr. Areum Jeong (@DrAreumJeong)   Music this week from "Stand Down" by Luminar. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed. We have a really special episode for you today, which we hope will highlight International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8th!  Joining us is Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly. Charrise is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology. Charisse's work focuses on the transnational entanglements of U.S. racial capitalism, anticommunism, and antiblack structural racism. Charisse is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the co-editor of the recent book Organise, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's political writings, with Jodi Dean. Listen in as we discuss what it is to be a comrade, and how to push back on liberal notions that might equate it with allyship. We learn more about Black Communist Women in the U.S. and unpack tensions around political education and organizing. Thanks to Dr. CBS for spending time with us!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State Dr. CBS webpage   Our guests: Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (@blackleftaf)   Music this week from "Lioness" by Kevin Graham. 

 في هذه الحلقة ، ولأول مرة باللغة العربية ، نتحدث عن الزلزال المدمر الذي ضرب تركيا وسوريا يوم الاثنين 6 فبراير 2023 ، مخلفًا وراءه أكثر من 28000 حالة وفاة. نناقش تأثير الزلازل على البيئة المبنية في الشرق الأوسط ، وفي بلاد الشام على وجه الخصوص ، ونتحدث عن العوامل المختلفة التي تساهم في تحويل هذه الأخطار الطبيعية إلى كوارث واسعة النطاق   In this episode, and for the first time in Arabic, we talk about the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, February the 6th, 2023, leaving behind more than 28,000 deaths. We discuss the impact of earthquakes on the built environment in the Middle East, and in the Levant particularly, and we talk about the different factors that contribute to turning such natural hazards into large-scale disasters.   عامر حمد عيسى أبو خلف مرشح دكتوراه و باحث مساعد في معهد فلوريدا لمرونة البيئة المبنية. عامر مهندس إنشائي ويبحث في إدارة المخاطر وتصميم السلامة مع التركيز على المخاطر الطبيعية ، والبيئة المبنية ، وإدارة الأزمات ، والتخطيط للطوارئ. عامر أيضًا مؤلف في أهم المجلات العلمية في هذا المجال ، بما في ذلك المجلة الدولية للحد من مخاطر الكوارث ، والوقاية من الكوارث وإدارتها ، والمخاطر الطبيعية مجد برقاش مهندس مدني وطالب دراسات عليا في كلية الأمير حسين بن عبد الله الثاني للدراسات الدولية ، الجامعة الأردنية ، متخصص في حل النزاعات. مجد حاصل على شهادة معهد إدارة المشاريع ولديه أكثر من 12 عامًا من الخبرة في صناعة البناء. عمل مجد في العديد من مشاريع الطاقة النظيفة والنفط والغاز بين الشرق الأوسط وأمريكا الجنوبية   Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience. Amer is a structural engineer and he researches risk management and safety design with a focus on natural hazards, built environment, crisis management, and emergency planning. Amer is also a published author in top journals in the field, including the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Prevention and Management, and Natural Hazards.   Majd Bargash is a civil engineer and a grad student at Prince Hussein Bin Abdulla II College of International Studies, University of Jordan, majoring in Conflict Resolution. Majd is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified practitioner and has over 12 years of experience in the construction industry. Majd worked in several clean energy and oil and gas projects between the Middle East and South America.     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Our guests: Amer Abukhalaf (@AbukhalafAmer) Majd Bargash (@majdbargash89)   Music this week from "Falling Forward" by Kevin Graham. 

Thanks for joining us again as we explore solidarity! Today we are joined by Kim Fortun, a Professor in the University of California Irvine's Department of Anthropology. Her work focuses on environmental risk and disaster, and on experimental ethnographic methods and research design. You may know her from the Disaster-STS Research Network or as past-President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Kim is also one of the editors of the new Journal of Disaster Studies that we have mentioned on Disasters: Deconstructed! We hope you enjoy this discussion on justice, research methods and ethics, and how to collaborate better.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Disaster-STS Research Network Advocacy After Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders  Profile @ Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography Kim's profile page   Our guests: Kim Fortun (@kim_fortun)   Music this week from "Impavid" by Charlie Ryan. 

Today we continue our explorations under the theme of solidarity! We are so pleased to be in conversation with Dr. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, who is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University. Alex's research focuses on religious anarchism and increasingly anarcho-pacifism, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, and he is the author of a recently published book ‘Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now'. Hope you enjoy our discussion of anarchism, Tolstoy, and non-violence!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: A pacifist critique of the red poppy Alex's open access chapter summarising the book Alex in The Conversation Anarchist academics mailing list Anarchist Studies Network Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence   Our guests: Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (@alex_christoy)   Music this week from "Still Holding On" by Tristan Barton. 

We are so happy to wish you all a Happy New Year and welcome you back for Season 8 of Disasters: Deconstructed!!!  We can't wait to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen.  In season 8 we will be bringing you fresh content all around the theme of solidarity. And to help us get started, we have Dr. Jacob Remes here to help us introduce the season today! Jacob is a historian of urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration, at Gallatin, New York University.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Jacob's website (with links to his work) Journal of Disaster Studies   Our guests: Jacob Remes (@jacremes)   Music this week from "Believe the Hype" by Slpstrm. 

Thank you all so much for joining us again or for the first time in 2022 - We hope you enjoyed seasons 6 and 7 and and learned a thing or two like we did! Thanks to all of our amazing guests and friends of the show.  So, here is our annual Christmas Special! As always, join us for games, jokes and stories!  We appreciate you all for listening and supporting our work. Jason & Ksenia   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music from "Christmas Wish" by Bamtone. 

Thank you all for joining us for another Season of Disasters: Deconstructed! We appreciate everyone who listens and engages, joins our livestreams, and of course the amazing guests who bring fresh ideas to challenge and inspire us.  In the Season Finale we discuss why reading outside of disaster studies is so important, with some help from our listeners!    Further information: L'envers Des Catastrophes Podcast (Disasters: Deconstructed - French language version) Desastres: Deconstruidos Podcast (Disasters: Deconstructed - Spanish language version)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Maha Shuayb to read our final book of the season, "Patriarchy of the Wage" by Silvia Federici. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season!    Further information: Patriarchy of the Wage   Our guests: Maha Shuayb (@MahaShuayb) Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Estella Carpi to read "Pedagogy of Indignation" by Paulo Freire. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season!    Further information: Pedagogy of Indignation   Our guests: Estella Carpi (@estycrp) Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Noémie Bautista Gonzalez to read "Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season!    Further information: Pollution in Colonialism   Our guests: Noémie Bautista Gonzalez (@noemie_go) Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

In this episode we sit with Camillo Boano to discuss our reading of Malcom Ferdinand's “Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World”. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season!    Further information: Decolonial Ecology   Our guests: Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

Today we are joined by our friend and sometimes co-host JC Gaillard to discuss his recently published book, The Invention of Disaster!In it he argues that there isn't such a thing as a disaster because our current understanding of disasters is a subjective interpretation of suffering, harm and damage that allows those in power to draw a line between what is acceptable and what is not. We discuss what he calls ‘epistemological nonsense' and it gets very philosophical as we get into critical-Left theory - Foucault to Latour, to Derrida, to Spivak, Said and Gramsci!! Join us :)    Further information: The Invention of Disaster   Our guests: JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

Today we were so happy to sit down with Professor Lucy Easthope, author of "When the Dust Settles" and the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been a government advisor on the 2004 Boxing day tsunami, 7/7 bombings in London, Grenfell fire, and the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss disaster language, care for victims and practitioners, and how to work within an often dehumanising response system. Check it out!    Further information: When the Dust Settles   Our guests: Lucy Easthope (@LucyGoBag)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

Today we are super excited to share our conversation with Harsha Walia, the award-winning author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism - a book we love so much on the podcast! She also wrote Undoing Border Imperialism (published in 2013) and much more. Harsha is a community organiser and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-colonial movements.  We discuss the relationship between borders and the creation of disasters. Check it out!    Further information: Border and Rule   Our guests: Harsha Walia (@HarshaWalia)   Season 7 note: As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading: 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

Welcome back for Season 7 of Disasters:Deconstructed!!!  We are again very excited to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen.  As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. The season is focused on reading books and is being co-curated by Professor Camillo Boano!  Camillo Boano is a professor in Urban Design and Critical Theory at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) and he's also a professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Today we chat with Camillo about what it is to be critical and why theory is so important for disaster studies. And BOOKS!  Thanks to everyone on Twitter for helping us to choose the following books for this season. Please read along with us!! 1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world” 2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism” 3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation” 4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!   

And there we have it, another Season of Disasters: Deconstructed in the books! Thank you to everyone who listens and engages, joins our livestreams, and of course the amazing guests who bring fresh ideas to challenge and inspire us.  In the Season Finale we recap on our favorite moments from the season and chat about what is coming up in the second half of 2022!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Jargon Jar   Music this week from "The Four Seasons" by Dover Quartet. 

Today we are excited to spend time with Dr Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete. She is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies, and specialises in gender, disasters, and development. Listen in to our conversation that explores critical issues in participatory research, and conceptions of vulnerability!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: PhotoKwento: co-constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery   Our guests: Kaira Zoe A. Cañete (@kairazoe)   Music this week from "Caldera" by Oliver Michael. 

Today we are so pleased to share our conversation with Dr. Maíra Irigaray, who is a human rights and environmental lawyer currently working at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as the Latin America Policy and Research Analyst. She shares about her anti-oppressive approach to research and how it is central to her advocacy for indigenous people's rights in the Amazon.   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Dr. Irigaray website   Our guests: Maíra Irigaray   Music this week from "Think of You" by Oliver Michael. 

We are delighted to bring you this season's audience participation episode! Today we invited both established disaster scholars and early career researchers to answer two separate questions:  - From the established scholars, we wanted to know - What is important to you as you engage with Early Career Researchers?  - And we asked ECRs: What inspires you and what needs challenging? Tune in to hear the responses that we received and let us know what you think on Twitter!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Don't miss the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies.” So many amazing contributions from ECRs helping to lead disaster studies towards a more critical future.    Our guests: Thanks to everyone that sent us clips - Lori Peek, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, Per Becker, Rohit Jigyasu, Katherine Campos, Tilly Hall, Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo, Nimesh Dhungana,  Vanicka Arora, Sarah Kelly, Noémie Gonzalez Bautista, Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel and Husna Wulansari.   Music this week from "Let Me Down" by Oliver Michael. 

We are so pleased this week on Disasters: Deconstructed to spend time with Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel, Husna Wulansari and Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo! We feature a bit more of practitioner perspective in this episode, as we discuss the practicalities of working with so-called vulnerable groups.  Each of our guests today also contributed to the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies.”  Check out their work at the links below!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping - Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel (with Adriano Mota Ferreira, Victor Marchezini, Daniel Andres Rodriguez, Melissa da Silva Oliveira, Daniel Messias dos Santos ) Towards meaningful participation in humanitarian studies: co-researching with persons with disabilities in Central Sulawesi - Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo and Husna Wulansari    Our guests: Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel (@Trejo_Miguel) Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo Husna Wulansari    Music this week from "Rise & Rise - Song of Breakthrough" C3NC. 

This week on Disasters: Deconstructed we talk to Sarah Kelly and Noémie Bautista Gonzalez about creative methodologies in disaster research! We covered a lot of ground on how and why to challenge normative research approaches, reflexive practices and researcher positionality. We think that they will challenge you to think more creatively about what you do!  Like many of our guests in Season 6, they each contributed to the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies.”  Check out their work at the links below!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile - Sarah Kelly (with Valentina Carraro, José Luis Vargas, Patricio Melillanca and José Miguel Valdés-Negroni) The importance of context-relevant feminist perspectives in disaster studies. The case of a research on forest fires with the Atikamekw First Nation - Noémie Bautista Gonzalez   Our guests: Sarah Kelly (@SarahKellygeog) Noémie Bautista Gonzalez (@noemie_go)   Music this week from "Galaxy" by Sunny Fruit. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! As we continue Season 6 today we are joined by Vanicka Arora and Nimesh Dhungana to discuss insiders and outsiders in disaster research and practice. It's something that has been central to narratives informing the Disaster Studies Manifesto and the Disaster Studies Accord.  In each of their papers for the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies”, Vanicka and Nimesh share personal experiences of being both insiders and outsiders, and how they navigate power relationships in disaster fieldwork. Check out their work at the links below!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Reconstruction of heritage in Bhaktapur, Nepal: examining tensions and negotiations between the “local” and the “global” - Vanicka Arora Aiming at a moving target: methodological reflections on the study of politics of citizen-centric governance in post-earthquake Nepal - Nimesh Dhungana   Our guests: Vanicka Arora (@VanickaA) Nimesh Dhungana (@NimeshDhungana)   Music this week from "Let Me Down" by Oliver Michael. 

Today we are pleased to share a conversation with Sneha Krishnan, Susie Goodall, and Anuszka Mosurska, which invited us to reflect on our own positionality and its impact on what we do and how we do it in the context of research!  In each of their papers for the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies”,  their voices, experiences and influence (+ those of co-authors) were prominent and were part of the dialogue. Listen in to hear why Sneha, Susie and Anuszka believe that positionality is important!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Cross-country use of participatory research methods in practice to enhance inclusive decision-making - Sneha Krishnan, Robert Soden, Bhen Aguihon, Rongkun Liu, Pradip Khatiwada Disaster conversations: intersecting perspectives on cross-cultural disaster research - Susie Goodall, Zainab Khalid, Monia Del Pinto The reflective research diary: a tool for more ethical and engaged disaster research - Anuszka Mosurska   Our guests: Sneha Krishnan (@snek87) Susie Goodall (@susiegoodall1) Anuszka Mosurska (@AnuszkaMosurska)   Music this week from "Above All Else" by Campagna. 

We are so happy to wish you all a Happy New Year and welcome you back for Season 6 of Disasters:Deconstructed!!!  We are again very excited to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen.  Our new season is focused on a cadre of emerging researchers that are challenging the sacred cows of (disaster) research. The season came about through our engagement with Disaster Prevention & Management Journal and the forthcoming Special Issue on “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies”.  Today we welcome the editors of the special issue, Eefje Hendriks, Laura Kmoch, Femke Mulder & Ricardo Fuentealba, to discuss their vision for this body of work. This will help us to position the season as a whole. In the coming weeks we will speak to many of the contributing authors!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Found You" by Asher Postman. 

Thank you all so much for joining us again or for the first time this year - We hope you enjoyed seasons 4 and 5 and learning from all the incredible guests that shared their time and ideas with us!  Today we are very excited to bring you the 2021 Christmas Special! Don't expect anything too serious, because we are mostly messing about ;)  We appreciate you all for listening and supporting our work this year. See you in 2022! Jason & Ksenia   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Christmas Morning" by Jakub Pietras and "A Very Sunny Christmas" by Young Rich Pixies. 

We are really excited to release this special episode we recorded with the incredible conceptual artist Paula Morison! It touches on a lot of themes common to Disasters: Deconstructed, in the way that narratives are represented and discussed but we found it amazing to just listen to the thought process behind some of Paula's work. What might be possible if disaster science was more collaborative with the arts? Enjoy!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: www.paulamorison.com Instagram: @paulamorison   https://radar.lboro.ac.uk/artists/paula-morison/ https://www.paulamorison.com/projects/project-014 https://www.paulamorison.com/projects/project-011   Music this week from "Hayat" by Endure. 

We are so glad that you have joined us for Season 5 - it's been a blast and a pleasure to share all of the content! Thank you to everyone who listens and engages, joins our livestreams, and of course the amazing guests who bring fresh ideas to challenge and inspire us.  In the Season Finale we recap on our favorite moments from the season and chat about what is coming up next year!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Radix Collective Jargon Jar     Music this week from "Early Mornings" by Paper Planes and "Walking Away" by Ramol. 

This week we are joined by the creator of the epic Twitter account @PlaguePoems, Zachary Loeb, to discuss his research on the Y2K scare and more broadly technological reliance, narratives of destruction and technocratic fixes that obscure social and political root causes of disaster. Hope you all enjoy it!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Plague Poems   Our guests: Zachary Loeb (@libshipwreck & @PlaguePoems)   Music this week from "Above the Clouds" by Milano. 

This week we discuss communication for social change with two scholars who engage deeply with the work of Paulo Freire, and consider the potential for disaster studies to reflect on the legacy of Freire, and public scholarship and education more broadly. Thanks to Dr Ana Cristina Suzina and Prof Thomas Tufte for sharing such incredible insights!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Paulo Freire Centennial video series!    Our guests: Ana Cristina Suzina (@anasuzina) Thomas Tufte   Music this week from "Siberian Summer" by Sunny-Fruit. 

Today it's our great pleasure to release our latest AUDIENCE SPECIAL! We asked our audience, Is there anything wrong with framing disaster as “events”? Why/why not? Thank you all so much for thinking about this question, and we are glad that many of you got back to us!  Ksenia & Jason frame today's conversation around the responses received and we hope that this episode can be a conversation starter on another contested concept in disaster studies. Indeed, what is a disaster?!!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Contributors: Anuzska Musurska Katy Davison Emmanuel Raju Danielle Rivera David Prevatt Susanna Hoffman Lee Bosher Marie Aronsson-Storrier Ricardo Fuenteabla   Music this week from "Deep Breathing" by Ramol. 

This week Ksenia and guest co-host JC Gaillard are joined by Mx Roxanne Omega-Doron (Bisdak Pride in the Philippines), Bunda Mayora (Fajar Sikka in Indonesia), Neen Sapalo (University of the Philippines Diliman), and Adryan Sasongko (Resilience Development Initiative in Indonesia) to discuss the experiences of LGBTQI minorities and non-Western gender identities.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Platforms for the inclusion of gender and sexual minorities in climate change adaptation policy and action   Our guests: Roxanne Omega-Doron (see @bisdakpride) Bunda Mayora (see https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPvG23RBBaN/) Adryan Sasongko (see @RDI_Global) Neen Sapalo (@smallofasia) JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)   Music this week from "Warm Place" by Lucky Sound. 

This week we are excited to share a conversation with returning guests Danielle Rivera and Emmanuel Raju about what recovery should look like, and what is regularly missing when we "Build Back Better".    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Design in Planning: Reintegration through Shifting Values   Our guests: Danielle Rivera (@danielle_zoe) Emmanuel Raju (@EmmanuelRaju7)   Music this week from "Enlightenment" by Vic Davy. 

This week...   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: links here....   Our guests: Chris Gomez   Music this week from "Kaitlyn" by Vic Davy. 

This week we revisit a question that comes up time and again, what is a disaster? Joining us is the wonderful Dr. Susanna Hoffman, an anthropologist who for decades has been at the forefront of social science investigating the “why” and “how” disasters occur. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion about framing, meaning, politics and language of disaster!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Susanna's website where you can find the books that we discussed in the episode!    Our guests: Susanna Hoffman   Music this week from "Where That Ends and This Begins" by Vic Davy. 

Welcome back for Season 5!!!  We are so glad to see you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen.  Today we give some context to the new season, and then sit down with the amazing storyteller/engineer/professor David Prevatt to discuss disaster risk and colonized peoples, and how professionals can ethically be a part of community-centered social change.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Once More" by Vic Davi. 

Today we bring you the second part of the two-part series sharing local stories from young people about living through COVID-19! Today's episode sees participants reflect on the learnings we can take forward and their hopes for how society can change.  Thank you to the UN Major Group for Children and Youth and all the partners and supporters of the ‘Asia Pacific Researchers, Practitioners, Policy-Makers in Dialogue with Children and Youth Project.'    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: About the project!   Music this week from "Metamorphosis" by Ian Post. 

Over the past few months, Disasters: Deconstructed has partnered with the UN Major Group for Children and Youth as part of the ‘Asia Pacific Researchers, Practitioners, Policy-Makers in Dialogue with Children and Youth Project.’ This is part one of a two-part series sharing local stories from young people about living through COVID-19. Thank you to everyone involved in this important research project, especially all of those who were interviewed!   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: About the project!   Music this week from "Flight of The Inner Bird" by Sivan Talmor. 

Thank you for joining us for Season 4! We appreciate you all spending time listening, and all of our amazing guests. In this episode Jason, Ksenia and Darien look back at some of our favorite bits from each episode, and look forward to what's next.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Mend and Repeat" by Vic Davi.