Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
S4E7 - Vicarious Trauma
Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast
Reflecting on human society from diverse disciplinary and ideological perspectives to understand the root causes of disasters.
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Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
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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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.
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
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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Check out some of Quincy's work
Our guests:
Quincy J. Walters (@quincyjwalters)
Music this week from "Homecoming" by Michael Shynes.
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
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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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
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
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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In the Molecular Ecologist
Our guests:
R. Shawn Abrahams (@Young_Eukaryote)
Music this week from "Never Asking" by Garrett Bevins.
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
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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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.
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
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.
Wednesday Dec 23, 2020
Wednesday Dec 23, 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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An anarchist guide to Christmas
Music this week from "Christmas Pudding" by g-yerro and "A Very Sunny Christmas" by Young Rich Pixies.
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
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!
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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.
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
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!
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Music this week from "Closer" by Ian Post.
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
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!
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Further information:
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
Our guests:
Dewald van Niekerk (@dewaldvn)
Music this week from "Break Me" by Michael Shynes.
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.