Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

S4E9 - Coloniality & Disasters

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. 
 
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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. 

S4E8 - Vulnerability (Audience Special)

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. 
  
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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. 

S4E7 - Vicarious Trauma

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. 
 
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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. 

S4E6 - Infrastructure Justice

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.  
 
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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. 
 
 

S4E5 - Radio Storytelling

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! 
 
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Further information:
Check out some of Quincy's work
 
Our guests:
Quincy J. Walters (@quincyjwalters)
 
Music this week from "Homecoming" by Michael Shynes. 
 
 

S4E4 - Public Schools

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. 
 
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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
 

S4E3 - Food & Mass Extinction

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. 
 
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Further information:
In the Molecular Ecologist
 
Our guests: 
R. Shawn Abrahams (@Young_Eukaryote)
 
Music this week from "Never Asking" by Garrett Bevins. 
 

S4E2 - Black Feminism

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. 
 
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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. 
 

S4E1 - Introducing the New Season

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. 
 
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Music this week from "Born Again" by Michael Shynes. 
 

Christmas Special 2020

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. 
 
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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.