Monday Aug 26, 2019
S1E13 - Climate Change
2019-08
2019-08
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
This week we are joined by Dr Samantha Montano to talk about disaster myths. Samantha is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Management & Disaster Science at University of Nebraska Omaha.
In this episode we discuss what it is to be a "disasterologist" and what kind of myths and other destructive disaster narratives that she has dealt with in her work across research, emergency management practice and grassroots community activism.
Of course, the idea that disasters are "natural" features, as you might expect!
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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 "New Land" by Ian Post
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
In the second part of our discussion with Anthony Oliver-Smith, we discuss how society constructs risk using the example of Florida. He talks to us about his background as an anthropologist and how this field has become more critical in its study of disasters. We also discuss language, politics and the media in relation to root causes of disasters.
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Further information:
Tony's website links to much of his collection of work
Anthropology and the Political Ecology of Disasters
Our guests:
Anthony Oliver-Smith
Music this week from "Lioness" by Valkyrie
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Today we are delighted to be bringing you the first part of a conversation about "root causes" with Anthony Oliver-Smith. Tony is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and has been a great inspiration to both of us.
In this first part (of two) we discuss what root causes are and why it is so important to look beneath the symptoms, when we analyze disaster impacts. Tony gives us some wonderful examples from his expansive career that illustrate how disaster are anything but natural.
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Further information:
Tony's website links to much of his collection of work
Anthropology and the Political Ecology of Disasters
Our guests:
Anthony Oliver-Smith
Music this week from "Lioness" by Valkyrie