Monday Sep 30, 2019
S1E18 - Manifesto
2019-09
2019-09
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
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.
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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.
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
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!
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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.
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Today it's just us - your hosts Jason (@vonmeding) and Ksenia (@KsChmutina) - to talk about our 2 years of work investigating the expression "natural disaster" in academic literature.
We reflect on our new paper, A Dilemma of Language: "Natural Disasters" in Academic Literature, and talk more broadly about the importance of language in influencing how people understand risk and how they behave towards it.
Who is served by disasters being understood as natural? Is it actually harmful?
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Further information:
Our piece in Open Democracy
A Dilemma of Language: "Natural Disasters" in Academic Literature - in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Our guests:
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Music this week from "On the Way" by Ian Post.
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Disaster risk is created in many complex ways. Today we are so pleased to welcome Gonzalo Lizarralde to talk about how colonization not only historically created risk in so many ways, but how neoliberalism has in fact continued the work of building empire.
It is a conversation you won't want to miss!
Gonzalo is the Université de Montréal Fayolle-Magil Construction Research Chair in Architecture, the Built Environment and Sustainability. He is also the director of the IF Research Group (grif) and the Canadian Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction Research Alliance (Oeuvre durable).
His work focuses on understanding project processes, risks, low-cost housing, and informality in urban settings. He is interested in the causes and consequences of rapid urban transformation triggered by disasters, climate change, socio-political conflicts, and economic instability.
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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 "Welcome to My City" by Anton Vlasov.