Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
S7E6 - Reading Pollution Is Colonialism
Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast
Reflecting on human society from diverse disciplinary and ideological perspectives to understand the root causes of disasters.
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Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
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”
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Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
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”
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Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
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”
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Thursday Aug 25, 2022
Thursday Aug 25, 2022
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”
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Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
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”
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
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!
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Further information:
Jargon Jar
Music this week from "The Four Seasons" by Dover Quartet.
Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
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!
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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.
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
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.
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Further information:
Dr. Irigaray website
Our guests:
Maíra Irigaray
Music this week from "Think of You" by Oliver Michael.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
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!
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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.
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
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!
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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.
About Disasters: Deconstructed
Jason and Ksenia bring you regular content reflecting on human society from diverse disciplinary and ideological perspectives to understand why disasters really happen.
There is no other podcast centering the most marginalized in disasters-a “people’s” story; recurring themes are structural violence, inequality, injustice, resistance and organizing.