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: [email protected]   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.   

Thank you to Professor Cheryl Potgieter for joining us for the penultimate episode of Season 4 to talk about gender and sexuality! Cheryl is a Research Professor at Durban University of Technology, and Head of Genderjustice,Health and Human Development. She was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In this episode we discuss the importance of politically active scholarship and why we need to center the voices of Black women. What are doing wrong when we discuss sexuality in scientific discourses? How can disaster studies bring sexuality into the frame in a transformative way?    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Social cohesion, sexuality, homophobia and women’s sport in South Africa     Our guests: Cheryl Potgieter (Researchgate profile)   Music this week from "Hero for Hire" by Michael Shynes. 

This week we are delighted to discuss the importance of cultivating a community-centered ethos in our research and practice with Jake Rom D. Cadag. Jake is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines and works across academia and NGO sectors in DRR and climate change adaptation. We talk about power dynamics in communities, and the importance of local knowledge and capacities.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Jake's profile   Our guests: Jake Cadag   Music this week from "Are You Alive" by Michael Shynes. 

Thanks so much to Barbara Carby for joining us this week! Barbara is Director of Disaster Risk Reduction Centre at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and the former Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management in Jamaica. We discuss DRR mainstreaming in the Caribbean and how states support each other and leverage their capacities in solidarity, as well as misconceptions about the region and labelling people as "resilient" or "vulnerable".    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: UWE profile   Our guests: Barbara Carby   Music this week from "Before I Can Fall Asleep" by Michael Shynes. 

This week we welcome Belen Desmaison, a lecturer and researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is coordinator of the action-research project CASA (Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amazónicas) and researches resettlement processes, sustainable and resilient urban and architectural design, and the generation of socially and environmentally just habitats. So excited to share this conversation about feminist urbanism, environmental and spatial justice and development 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: Belen's profile   Our guests: Belen Desmaison   Music this week from "Sundown" by Michael Shynes. 

Join us this week for a discussion with DRR expert and #NoNaturalDisasters advocate Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Professor of Natural Hazards and Risk at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. We discuss how risk is created within society and how state responses so often focus on reacting to hazards rather than addressing root causes. What does this mean for Latin America and the Caribbean? How do efforts by organizations like La Red support efforts towards a real understanding of risk?    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: La Red   Our guests: Irasema Alcántara-Ayala   Music this week from "New Years Day" by Michael Shynes. 

This week Jason & Ksenia kick off the second half of the season (which will focus on the Global South) with a conversation about coloniality and disasters with Dr Danielle Rivera, Assistant Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Just Environments Lab. Join us as we focus on the problems with "event-centric" narratives of disaster that do not reflect the fact that disaster impacts are shaped by structural violence.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Just Environments Lab Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence   Our guests: Danielle Rivera (@danielle_zoe)   Music this week from "Crowns" by Glories. 

Today we bring you a long-promised AUDIENCE SPECIAL on vulnerability! We asked you a while back, a) What does vulnerability mean to you? and b) Is vulnerability a useful concept? Does it allow us to frame places and people we wish to prioritise? Thank you all so much for thinking about these questions, and we are glad that many of you got back to us!  Ksenia, Jason & Darien framed 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.     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Contributors: Marccus Hendricks (@mdhDuBois) Monia del Pinto (@moniadelpinto) R. Shawn Abrahams (@Young_Eukaryote) Luis Gallegos (@Mr_GLuis) Jamie Vickery (@JamieVickery) JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)   Music this week from "Kids" by Christopher Young. 

Today Darien wraps up his curated section of Season 4 and sits down with Benjamin Ruiz Rosado, Senior Training Manager in the Division of Violence Prevention at the Boston Public Health Commission. Benjamin is a public health social worker, an advocate for immigrants, a youth educator, and a firm believer in intersectional racial justice. Don't miss this incredibly rich conversation.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Findings from a Feasibility Study of an Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group Intervention to Reduce Depression among LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer) Young People   Our guests: Benjamin R. Rosado, @justcheckingin.qte (https://www.instagram.com/justcheckingin.qte/)   Music this week from "Dream the World" by John Coggins. 

Today Darien and Ksenia are joined by Dr. Marccus Hendricks, an Environmental Planning professor at the University of Maryland and Director of the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice (SIRJ) Lab.     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Transforming Public Safety and Urban Infrastructure to Mitigate Climate and Public Health Disasters SIRJ Lab   Our guests: Marccus D. Hendricks (@mdhDuBois)   Music this week from "Waterfall" by Milano.     

This week Darien sits down with fellow Floridian Quincy Walters, a reporter at WBUR, Boston's NPR station. You are all going to appreciate this conversation on radio storytelling and how that plays out when the subject is disaster - they cover a lot of ground including the dynamic between editor and reporter, and reporter and researcher. What are the ethical considerations of arriving in the aftermath of a traumatic event with a microphone to "extract" a story (or research data)? That and more in Season 4 Episode 5!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Check out some of Quincy's work   Our guests: Quincy J. Walters (@quincyjwalters)   Music this week from "Homecoming" by Michael Shynes.     

Luis Gallegos, an Assistant Principal at Alliance Ouchi, a high school in Los Angeles, joins Darien on today's show! Luis is a public school educator and has served in schools throughout New England and Los Angeles, CA. As a queer, Latinx school leader, he works from a social justice lens with the goal of empowering students to dismantle systems of oppression. The conversation unpacks the inequitable impacts of COVID-19 on public schools, teachers, students and families, and illustrates again that we must focus on the root causes of risk in society.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Alliance Ouchi   Our guests:  Luis Gallegos (@Mr_GLuis)   Music this week from "Fly" by Michael Shynes.    *Correction: at 7:45, Gallegos intended to refer to Prop 187  

Today Darien catches up with R. Shawn Abrahams, a genderqueer black scientist practicing ascent with modification. They study phylogenomics, evolution, and super powers! This conversation about evolution, food politics, extinction and the Anthropocene is a wonderful demonstration of the fact that understanding risk involves appreciating the deep interrelationships of all life.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: In the Molecular Ecologist   Our guests:  R. Shawn Abrahams (@Young_Eukaryote)   Music this week from "Never Asking" by Garrett Bevins.   

This week Darien sits down with Dr Fayola Jacobs, assistant professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. The conversation focuses on the black feminist lens that Dr Jacobs brings to the topics of disaster planning, environmental justice and urban planning.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Black feminism and radical planning: New directions for disaster planning research   Our guests:  Fayola Jacobs (@FayolaJ_)   Music this week from "Where That Ends and Begins" by Vic Davi.   

Welcome back for Season 4!!!  As always, thanks for joining us once more - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen.  This season Jason and Ksenia are joined by a new co-host, Darien Alexander WIlliams! Today we give some context to the new season, discuss the key themes that emerged and reflect on why we have encouraged the conversation in certain directions.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Born Again" by Michael Shynes.   

Thank you all for joining us this year - We hope you enjoyed Seasons 2 and 3, which first aired in 2020, and learned as much as we did from our amazing guests!    Today we bring you our Christmas Special for 2020! Listen in for some festive antics, and weird and adorable facts and stories from around the world.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: An anarchist guide to Christmas   Music this week from "Christmas Pudding" by g-yerro and "A Very Sunny Christmas" by Young Rich Pixies.   

Today we bring you a special live streamed episode that we recorded in September 2020 with several members of the Disaster Capitalism & COVID-19 Working Group, one of the COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research funded by the Natural Hazards Center, and some additional guests that brought perspectives from around the world on this issue. You can watch the livestream recording here!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Subscribe your favorite app!  Please Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts!   Further information: Check out the Research Agenda Setting Paper from the Disaster Capitalism and COVID-19 Working Group   Our guests: Wes Cheek (@wesinjapan) Claudia Gonzalez (@cgonzalezmuzzio)  Holmes Paez  Mittul Vahanvati (@MittulVahanvati) Victor Marchezini (@VMarchezini) Dewald Van Niekerk (@dewaldvn)   Music this week from "What is love like this" by Sajan Nauriyal. 

Thank you for joining us for Season 3! Today we look back at some of our favorite bits from each episode, and look forward to what is next for Disasters: Deconstructed!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Closer" by Ian Post.   

Today we welcome Dewald van Niekerk, editor-in-chief of Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, to the show! We hope you enjoy this discussion about academic publishing - we talk about access, audience, language and more!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies    Our guests:  Dewald van Niekerk (@dewaldvn)   Music this week from "Break Me" by Michael Shynes.   

This week Dr Sarah DeYoung, core faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, joins us to talk public health!  We discuss some of the work that she has been doing in 2020 and broader concerns about trust and communication.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Safe Spaces: Creating a Culture to Support Infant Feeding in Shelters   Our guests:  Sarah DeYoung (@SarahDeYoung2)   Music this week from "Too Close To The Sun" by Zac Nelson.   

Thanks to Mihir Bhatt for being with us this week! Mihir is the Director of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), an organization focused on community-based action planning, action research and advocacy in disaster mitigation. Our conversation focuses on how we can learn so much from those experiencing risk, and how we need to center these people and their capacities rather than always bringing external "knowledge" through teaching and training - "too much schooling, not enough active learning."    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Find out more about AIDMI   Our guests:  Mihir Bhatt, director of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (@AIDMI_ORG)   Music this week from "Now or Never" by Christopher Young.   

So often we think of "community-based" work as being about the location alone, but this week Zenaida Delica-Willison joins us to discuss her life's work of putting the people that live actually in a place at the center of both disaster related decision-making and narratives. We are so pleased to share this interview that gives us a look into her influential and pioneering work on Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Feschrift in tribute to Zenaida   Our guests:  Zenaida Delica-Willison, the Center for Disaster Preparedness (@cdporgph)   Music this week from "Phantoms" by Ian Locke.   

This week we are back again with JC Gaillard to talk about the Disaster Studies Manifesto. Following on from Part 1, we consider responses to more question from our listeners, and then have an overall discussion: 3. What are your relationships with research partners from within/outside your study areas?   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values: A Disaster Studies Manifesto   Our guests:  JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)   With recorded contributions from: Marjorie Balay-as Fernando Briones Ilan Kelman Hanna Ruszczyk Gonzalo Lizarralde Terry Gibson Camilo Fernandes Femke Mulder Fatima Molina Rohit Jigyasu Katie Owen, Mukta Tamang, Jeevan Baniya and Sara Shneiderman   Music this week from "Out in the Cold" by Josh Leake.   

This is the first of a two part series where some of our listeners and friends reflected on the Disaster Studies Manifesto and responded to some questions that we released for open comment. In Part 1, JC Gaillard joins us to listen to the submissions we received and briefly discuss.  We are considering the following questions: 1. Is our current terminology/concepts appropriate for working in a non-Anglophone context? 2. Do our research methodologies serve the needs of those who research and those who are ‘researched’?   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values: A Disaster Studies Manifesto   Our guests:  JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)   With recorded contributions from: Marjorie Balay-as Fernando Briones Ilan Kelman Hanna Ruszczyk Gonzalo Lizarralde Terry Gibson Camilo Fernandes Femke Mulder Fatima Molina Rohit Jigyasu Katie Owen, Mukta Tamang, Jeevan Baniya and Sara Shneiderman   Music this week from "Goodbye" by Liquify.   

Thank you so much to Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek for joining us again for this week's episode!! We recapped on an amazing Virtual Hazards Workshop in July and discussed hope in the hazards and disaster field, from personal growth to collective action.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Natural Hazards Center Active Hope Rebecca Solnit's website   Our guests:  Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center (@HazCenter)   Music this week from "Fall Until I Fly" by Dollshade.   

Today we are joined by Aparna Tandon, Senior Programme Leader at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). Join us for a discussion about the importance of preserving cultural heritage through disasters, and the tensions that arise!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: ICCROM   Our guests:  Aparna Tandon (@aparnatan) ICCROM (@ICCROM)   Music this week from "I'm Not Ready" by Jack Thweatt.   

Today we are so happy to have the founders of the Nakuru Accord - a call to commit to publicly sharing failures and learning from each other - on the show. Welcome Dani Barrington, Esther Shaylor & Becky Sindall! We love their Twitter account, Wash Failures and it was so much fun to sit down and discuss the importance of failure in research and practice!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Nakuru Accord   Our guests:  Dani Barrington (@Dani_Barrington) Esther Shaylor (@elshaylor) Becky Sindall (@BexSindall)   Music this week from "Alive and Well" by Campagna.   

Today we welcome photographer Charles Fox to the show! We discussed his years of creative work in Cambodia, as a photojournalist and more. It's so important to consider the humanity in all its complexity that exists beyond the "disaster event" images that are often a viewer's only lens into a place. We discuss Charles' book project "Buried" and the collaborative form of storytelling that he undertook with a Cambodian family.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Charles Fox website "Buried"  Our guests:  Charles Fox   Music this week from "Oceanside Love" by John Coggins.   

We are delighted to welcome Barefoot Bob Alexander to the show today! Bfb is a disaster risk management consultant, musician and international man of mystery. Everyone who has met him has a story or two to tell! In this episode we talk about risk communication through song and video and other participatory approaches.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   Our guests:  Barefoot Bob Alexander   Music this week from "Rundown Streetlights" by Michael Shynes.   

We love making Disasters: Deconstructed, and this week we speak to some creators that are an inspiration to us! Mitch Stripling and Andrew McMahan are probably no strangers to you - the hosts of Dukes of Hazards. Today we sit down and discuss podcasting; the awkwardness, creative process, and humor when discussing distressing topics like disasters. Check it out!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Dukes of Hazards Podcast!   Our guests:  Mitch Stripling (@mitchstripling) and Andrew McMahan (@andrewmcmahan) - The Dukes of Hazards (@hazardspodcast)   Music this week from "Overdrive and Vibe" by Campagna.   

This week we are so pumped to bring you a fascinating discussion with Dave and Alex from Out of the Woods, a writing collective that recently published the book Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis. We talk about the power of collective creativity, climate crisis, narratives and stories, humanity, capitalism and disaster communism - trust us, it's epic.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Out of the Woods's blog Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis   Our guests:  Dave and Alex from Out of the Woods Collective (@out_woods)   Music this week from "Hello Love" by Campagna.   

We are so pleased to have Karen Gadbois with us today! She is a reporter and founder of The Lens, a New Orleans based local news source. We discuss the importance of local reporting and the kind of impact that good reporting can have in helping people to demand more accountable and just governance.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: The Lens    Our guests:  Karen Gadbois (@gadboislensnola)   Music this week from "Always" by Hello Love.   

This week Jason and Ksenia are busy at the Natural Hazards Workshop (it's virtual this year!) but we are so happy to bring you this episode about disaster reporting with possibly our most frequent guest, Dr Samantha Montano!  We talk about why reporting about disasters is sometimes off base, and why relationships between scientists and journalists are so necessary.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Visit Samantha's website and check out her amazing blog archive!  5 myths about floods - Samantha writes in the Washington Post   Our guests:  Samantha Montano (@SamLMontano)   Music this week from "Love While You Can" by Campagna.   

Welcome to Season 3!!!  Thanks for joining us again - or for this first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. To help us kick off the new season, Drexel University historian Scott Knowles sat down with us for a chat about the importance of historical context to the disaster impacts that we see around us in the present.  We can't wait to bring you the rest of the Season 3 episodes. So many wonderful guests!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: COVID Calls Scott's book, The Disaster Experts Scott's website   Our guests:   Scott Knowles (@USofDisaster)   Music this week from "Enthrall then Disappoint" by When Mountains Move.   

Today we bring you a very special episode that we recorded with the editors and some authors of a special issue of Disaster Prevention and Management Journal. The collection of papers commemorates the 10th anniversary of the l'Aquilla earthquake, and drew a range of critical scholarly contributions. We are so pleased to bring you this discussion with 5 wonderful Italian disaster researchers about the work - Giuseppe Forino, Fabio Carnelli, Isabella Tomassi, Angelo Imperiale and Gianmaria Valent.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Subscribe your favorite app!  Please Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts!   Further information: Special Issue: The L'Aquila earthquake ten years on (2009-2019): impacts and state-of-the-art   Our guests: Giuseppe Forino (@G_leipheimer) Fabio Carnelli (@fabiecka)  Isabella Tomassi  Angelo Imperiale  Gianmaria Valent    Music this week from "With You" by Young Love. 

Another special episode for you all today! We are discussing positive responses to COVID-19 - examples of how people as individuals and in a variety of groups are reaching out to others in ways that use, reinforce and cultivate capabilities and the institutions that enable humans to thrive together. Enjoy!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Subscribe your favorite app!  Please Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts!     Our guests: Claudia Gonzalez (@cgonzalezmuzzio) Emmanuel Raju (@EmmanuelRaju7)  Victor Marchezini (@VMarchezini) James Thomspson (@JamesThomp) Call for Positive Responses Examples:https://www.gdnonline.org Artful Care blog: https://aestheticsof.care    Music this week from "The Rhythm of Memories" by Assaf Ayalon. 

Thank you all SO MUCH for joining us this season! Welcome to our new listeners, and to those who have been with us from the start, thanks for still being here :) Today we have a wrap up episode for you - Ksenia and Jason discuss some of the key themes and ideas that have emerged and shone in season 2. We hope you enjoy the recap, and we can't wait to see you again in Season 3 in July (and before then, for special content!) Stay safe everyone, and keep fighting!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values: A Disaster Studies Manifesto   Our guests:   Featuring the voices of many of our amazing guests in Season 2!    Music this week from "Optimistic" by Stanley Gurvich.   

This week we are so pleased to sit down with Jamie Vickery to discuss how disasters affect people experiencing homelessness, and some of the deeper issues at play that are too often overlooked. We cover emergency response, policy, trust and narratives, and consider how we might challenge a culture that normalizes homelessness as a cautionary tale.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty Global Statement of Solidarity and Action to #ProtectTheUnhoused From COVID-19 National Alliance to End Homelessnes, "Coronavirus and Homelessness" National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, "Coronavirus and Housing/Homelessness" U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Exchange, "Disaster Recovery Homelessness Toolkit" Institute of Global Homelessness, "COVID-19 Homelessness Resources" Unsheltered in Place - Episode 398 of 99 Percent Invisible Podcast   Our guests:   Jamie Vickery (@JamieVickery)   Music this week from "Higher Place" by Sheperd.   

Thanks to Carlee Purdum from the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M for joining us this week to share about her research on disasters and prisoners, and unpack some of the narratives that shape our understanding of incarceration, particularly in the United States. How are prisoners particularly at risk in disasters, and how does the state exploit their status as modern day slaves? Download and listen in to this and more!   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   Carlee's website Texas Prisons Air-Conditioning Advocates NAACP "In the Eye of the Storm" report   Our guests:   Carlee Purdum (@CarleePurdumPhD)   Music this week from "Blue Rise" by Oliver Michael.   

Today we have Kristin Lange from UNICEF visiting with us to talk about people with disabilities!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   Guidance on strengthening disability inclusion in Humanitarian Response Plans   Our guests:   Kirstin Lange    Music this week from "Yosemite" by Oliver Michael.   

We are so pleased to have Marla Petal with us on the show today! She is the Principal Advisor for Urban Resilience and School Safety for Save the Children and is a prominent and fearless advocate for children and youth around the world. We discuss some of the particular inequalities and injustices faced by children, and why their voices are so important. Again, we discuss the power of narrative and framing as we approach discussion of a group so often identified as "vulnerable".    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector  Words into Action guidelines: Engaging children and youth in disaster risk reduction and resilience building   Our guests:   Marla Petal (@mpetal)   Music this week from "Wansui" by Oliver Michael.   

One of our most popular Season 1 episodes was "Empire" (S1E14) when Gonzalo Lizarralde joined us to talk about the creation of risk through colonization and imperialism, and which continues through globalized neoliberalism. The content was particularly relevant to our listeners in Latin America, so when Holmes (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Holmes_Paez) and Claudia (@cgonzalezmuzzio) approached us to record a special version of the episode in Spanish, we were delighted to say yes!    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: The Invisible Houses - Gonzalo's recent book and an ongoing education initiative about low-cost housing in developing countries.   Our guests: Gonzalo Lizarralde (@invisibl_houses)   Music this week from "Nothing Left Behind" by Zac Nelson.   

Today we are talking to Sarah Brown, Alison Sneddon and Mirianna Budimir from Practical Action about their work on gender and disasters. Why is it problematic when women and girls are treated as generically vulnerable? How can a binary narrative of gender be dangerous and create further marginalization? These and other questions are explored through the lens of intersectionality and story-telling.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Practical Action – Resources on gender: https://policy.practicalaction.org/policy-themes/gender Gender Transformative Early Warning Systems: https://infohub.practicalaction.org/handle/11283/621134 Missing Voices: Experiences of floods and early warning from marginalized women in Nepal and Peru: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Missing%20Voices.pdf Genders, bodies, politics: https://genderate.wordpress.com/feminism-101/ (Open in Chrome)   Our guests: Sarah Brown (Profile on Linkedin) Alison Sneddon (@sneddon_alison) Mirianna Budimir (@MBudimir)   Music this week from "Stronger" by Oliver Michael.   

 S2E11 – The story of people and heritage Today we are talking to Zeynep Gül Ünal who discussed with us ICORP on the Road initiative - a showcase of inspiring stories by professionals and local communities about post disaster response and recovery of cultural heritage from around the world. Zeynep also told us about the challenges of making documentaries and representing many voices – and the adventures that she and her team have had on the road.    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: ICORP on the Road Website: https://twitter.com/icorpontheroad Insta: https://www.instagram.com/icorpontheroad/?hl=en Youtube (Episodes): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDlJZlDqaesg-uo-zhwmVUQ    Our guests: Zeynep Gul Unal (@icorpontheroad)   Music this week from "Sonoma" by Glories.   

Another special episode for you this Friday.  As the COVID-19 spreads around the world, it pulls back the curtain on the ways in which society is failing. In this episode Samantha Montano and Wes Cheek join us to discuss the situation and how it relates to our everyday message - DISASTERS ARE NOT NATURAL!   We will be back on Monday with Season 2 Episode 11!     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!      Our guests: Samantha Montano (@SamLMontano)  Wes Cheek (@wesinjapan)   Music this week from "Clarity" by Ian Post.   

Today we are privileged to spend time with Rohit Jigyasu talking about why the places that we live are so important. How do people connect to the land, to the built environment and to their cultural heritage? What about when we disagree and have contested claims/values/visions? We tie all of this into the idea that the stories and narratives of people and place are an essential part of how we understand disasters.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: More information about Rohit at ICCROM page   Our guests: Rohit Jigyasu (@JigyasuRohit)    Music this week from "Bravo Sierra" by Glories.   

A special episode for you all to enjoy this weekend! Thanks so much to Sarah Delisle and Claudia Santos for joining Ksenia and Jason to discuss the first book that the Disasters: Deconstructed book group took on - The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. About 20 people participated in this first book group, so please share your thoughts if you have read it! Next book choice to Jason (will it be non-fiction? We think that's likely). We will be back on Monday with Season 2 Episode 10!     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!      Our guests: Sarah Delisle (@EMxSarah)  Claudia Santos (@ClaudiaLSantos)   Music this week from "Hold Me Down" by Hold Me Down.   

We are so pleased to bring you this conversation about representation with Dr Gemma Sou, who brings a development studies background and a postcolonial passion to disaster studies. We not only love her rich intellectual approach, but her ways of communicating - in this episode we talk about how to be true to the stories of people affected by disasters, and creative ways of storytelling.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Gemma's graphic novella After Maria Professional page   Our guests: Gemma Sou (@gemmasou)    Music this week from "As Walls Keep Shifting" by Glories.   

Today is the day - the AUDIENCE SPECIAL you have been waiting for is finally here! We asked you back in December a) What does resilience mean to you? b) Do you think resilience is a divisive concept or a unifying concept? and c) How can the concept of resilience help us to tell stories about disasters? Thank you all for taking the time to respond! We have been working on this one for quite some time so can't wait to let you all have a listen. Please do let us know what you think by leaving a comment on Twitter or sharing with your friends. Do you have any more questions prompted by the episode? We would love to do more audience inspired episodes in the future, so shoot us your ideas :)     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Is resilience a useful concept? An online debate!   Contributors: Gonzalo Lizarralde (@invisibl_houses Lee Bosher (@leebosher) Chris Zebrowski (@czebo) Hanna Ruszczyk (@HRuszczyk) Daniel Aldrich (@DanielPAldrich) Femke Mulder (@femkemulder78) Laura Gannon (@_lauragannon_) Lesley Gray (@DRR_NZ) Monika Al-Mufti (@MonikaAlMufti) Sam Montano (@SamLMontano) Lisa Bornstein   Music this week from "Light it Up" by John Isaac.   

We just love seeing people communicate about disasters using new mediums and forms and styles. Today, poet Aly Stoneman joins Ksenia and Jason to share some of her work and discuss how poetry can reach people with messages about environmental change is such powerful ways. You don't want to miss her reading some of her poems and discussing how they connect to research, practice and the front-line stories of people living in challenging and complex environments.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Aly's website   Our guests: Aly Stoneman (@AlyStoneman)   Music this week from "The Gathering" by Voices.   

Who doesn't love a great film? Through film we connect with stories, draw inspiration and process our own issues. Sometimes we are motivated to change. Today we talk with Irish filmmaker Joseph von Meding about how he got into socially conscious documentary work and what part film can play in bringing society forward on various issues.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Joseph's website   Our guests: Joseph von Meding (@jvmeding)   Music this week from "Ancestors" by Alex Keren.   

Dr. Santina Contreras joins us this week to talk PARTICIPATION! Why has it become such a popular word and idea, and what does it mean to different people? Drawing on her experiences around the world, working with communities, Santina shares about how so called "participatory" activities can be empowering and...well...pretentious and divisive. Please join us!     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Santina's website Capitalism, Colonialism, Crisis and Care (p14-15 of i-Rec magazine) - Santina & Skye Niles Using Arnstein’s Ladder as an Evaluative Framework for the Assessment of Participatory Work in Post-disaster Haiti. Journal of the American Planning Association   Our guests: Dr. Santina Contreras (@SantinaContrer)   Music this week from "Blue" by Orion.   

This episode features the AMAZING Mayor Heidi Harmon! She is Mayor of San Luis Obispo city in California, and we will talk about her experiences  making the transition from environmental activism to public office. She works tirelessly to serve diverse constituents, and we discuss how stories and narratives can help bring people together and build empathy.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Mayor Heidi's reelection campaign website An article that Heidi wrote with @vonmeding - Show Up, Stand Up and Step Up: Bold Action in the Wake of Storms   Our guests: Mayor Heidi Harmon (@heidiismighty)   Music this week from "Slow Energy" by Young Rich Pixies.   

Today we will be discussing the experience of risk, and disaster impacts by LGBTQI communities, who are often rendered invisible by those in power. The wonderful Darien Alexander Williams (MIT) joins us for this important conversation! In keeping with the theme of Season 2, we also talk about the role of narrative/stories in the marginalization of LGBTQI people, and how we can do better.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: An essay of Darien's that we enjoyed a lot - The Folly of Climate Change Philanthropy   Some of the literature discussed in the episode: Jacobs, F. (2019). Black feminism and radical planning: New directions for disaster planning research. Planning Theory, 18(1), 24-39. Goh, K. (2018). Safe cities and queer spaces: the urban politics of radical LGBT activism. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2), 463-477. Smart, M. J., & Whittemore, A. H. (2017). There goes the gaybourhood? Dispersion and clustering in a gay and lesbian real estate market in Dallas TX, 1986–2012. Urban Studies, 54(3), 600-615. Dominey-Howes, D., Gorman-Murray, A., & McKinnon, S. (2014). Queering disasters: On the need to account for LGBTI experiences in natural disaster contexts. Gender, Place & Culture, 21(7), 905-918. Gorman-Murray, A., McKinnon, S., & Dominey-Howes, D. (2014). Queer domicide: LGBT displacement and home loss in natural disaster impact, response, and recovery. Home Cultures, 11(2), 237-261. Hager, L. T. (2015). United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. The Oral History Review, 42(1), 134-138.   Our guests: Darien Alexander Williams (@nigreaux)   Music this week from "Spring Rain Blues" by Kaleido Sea.   

This week we are so pleased to have independent investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein - author of Disaster Capitalism - on the show to discuss his work documenting the struggles of oppressed people against injustice, all around the world. We wanted to know more about his approach to storytelling and the kind of feelings he tries to evoke for his readers - particularly to create solidarity with people they don't know, who often have very different lives to their own.     Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Antony's website is a great place to start exploring his work - https://antonyloewenstein.com/ You should also sign up for his newsletter!    Our guests: Antony Loewenstein (@antloewenstein)   Music this week from "Power" by Extreme. 

Welcome back for Season 2 of Disaster: Deconstructed! For the next 20 weeks we will be exploring stories of disaster - what stories do we tell and how? Which voices are privileged or silenced? How are different mediums used to convey messages about disaster? What narratives are central to our discourse? How do people outside of academia discuss disasters?  Joining us today to introduce and frame the season we are so pleased to have Lori Peek on the show! We hope you enjoy the conversation, and the vision for S2. As always, please let us know what you think and engage with the show. We have different special episodes in production or planned, where you can actively participate!   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Lori's books Behind the Backlash and Children of Katrina Her excellent recent piece highlighting how the most marginalized are forced to "bear" vulnerability Lori and JC Gaillard writing for Nature about the need for a Disaster Research Code of Conduct   Our guests: Lori Peek - https://www.colorado.edu/sociology/lori-peek   Music this week from "Falling Forward" by Kevin Graham.   

Today we have a surprise for our listeners - our first Christmas Special! WE MISSED YOU ALL!! Season 2 starts in a few weeks but we wanted to send you all our best wishes as you recharge over the break. In this special episode we share stories and poetry with a Christmas theme, and sort of related to disasters. Ksenia even has some jokes. We think you had better check it out ;)    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community over on Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!     Music this week from "Christmas Wish" by Bamtone.

Today we wrap up Season 1 of Disasters: Deconstructed! Thanks to everyone that has been a part of it - our listeners, our friends and family, and of course our brilliant guests. In this episode we revisit some of the key themes emerging from the Season, and discuss what we have in store for Season 2.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Join the Community over on Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!     Music this week from "6 Feet Under" by John Isaac.  

Back in June 2019, as part of the i-Rec conference, we recorded statements from participants in response to a prompt - What is the status quo that we need to disrupt, and how can we do it? The series of videos can be viewed here.  This week we will be sharing some of the responses with you and briefly discussing the key themes. Please join us over on Discord if you want to unpack further!    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: The series of videos on "Disrupting the Status Quo" can be viewed here.    Our guests: In order of appearance - Wes Cheek (@wesinjapan), Diana Contreras (@DianaContrerasM), Emmanuel Raju (@EmmanuelRaju7), Heidi Harmon (@heidiismighty), Gonzalo Lizarralde (@invisibl_houses), Tony Oliver-Smith, Lisa Bornstein, Terry Cannon, Aaron Opdyke (@aaronopdyke), Mittul Vahanvati (@MittulVahanvati), Lee Bosher (@leebosher).    Music this week from "Chimera Soldiers" by Max H.   

This week Ksenia visits Auckland, New Zealand and sits down with some disaster researchers who were recently involved in drafting quite the provocative "Manifesto". Thanks to JC Gaillard, Loic Le De and Jake Rom Cadag for sharing about the importance of this document and related efforts in the past. The conversation centers on the unequal relationship between researchers based on insider/outsider, North/South, developed/developing divides.  Tune in to hear about what is planned to move this agenda forward!   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Power, Prestige & Forgotten Values: A Disaster Studies Manifesto Post-disaster research: Is there gold worth the rush? Disaster studies inside out   Our guests: JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa) Loïc Le Dé  Jake Rom Cadag (@jake_cadag)     Music this week from "Hiemal" by Charlie Ryan.   

This week Daniel Aldrich and Wes Cheek join us to discuss what a successful disaster recovery looks like (or indeed if such a thing is possible), particularly in the context of Japan, where they have both worked extensively. Why is Japan held up as an exemplar for recovery? Does its technocratic approach work, and are we seeing the full picture? What is the role of social capital in determining recovery outcomes? Join us to hear about all this and more! Daniel P. Aldrich is a professor of political science and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University.  Wes Cheek is a post-doctoral fellow at Ritsumeikan University with a background in urban studies and post-disaster reconstruction.    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information:   Daniel's latest book - Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters   Our guests: Daniel Aldrich (@DanielPAldrich) Wes Cheek (@wesinjapan)   Music this week from "When I Get There" by Maya Isac.   

This week we continue our discussion of the misnomer "natural disaster" and connect with the founder of the #NoNaturalDisasters Twitter campaign, Kevin Blanchard!  Kevin is the Director of DRR Dynamics, a UK-based research organisation focused on ensuring the inclusion and empowerment of marginalised groups in the policy and practice of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian emergencies. He has undertaken extensive work developing inclusive DRR and humanitarian policy for national governments, international agencies and NGO’s. In the last couple of years, #NoNaturalDisasters has become influential online. We discuss the campaign's origins and vision!    Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @DisastersDecon Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!    Further information: Kevin on DRR Voices Blog #NoNaturalDisasters - Changing the discourse of disaster reporting Ksenia, Jason, Lee and JC in Open Democracy A Dilemma of Language: "Natural Disasters" in Academic Literature - in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science   Our guests: Kevin Blanchard (@DRRDynamics and @NoNatDisasters)   Music this week from "Believe the Hype" by SLPSTRM.