Sajag-Nepal's "Notes from the Field" is a three-episode podcast for "Disasters: Deconstructed" This special episode will introduce listeners to the work and scope of the "Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain in Nepal" project. Most importantly it will explore Sajag-Nepal project’s approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research on multi-hazards and risk chains in Nepal. In our final episode (of 3) we will focus on Slope Monitoring Equipment, wh...
Jul 22, 2024•42 min•Ep. 128
Sajag-Nepal's "Notes from the Field" is a three-episode podcast for "Disasters: Deconstructed" This special episode will introduce listeners to the work and scope of the "Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain in Nepal" project. Most importantly it will explore Sajag-Nepal project’s approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research on multi-hazards and risk chains in Nepal. Welcome to Episode 2 (of 3), where we will explore the understanding of mul...
Jun 19, 2024•54 min•Ep. 127
Sajag-Nepal's "Notes from the Field" is a three-episode podcast for "Disasters: Deconstructed" This special episode will introduce listeners to the work and scope of the "Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain in Nepal" project. Most importantly it will explore Sajag-Nepal project’s approaches to interdisciplinary and intercultural research on multi-hazards and risk chains in Nepal. In the first episode, we discuss cascading hazards in Nepal, with a focus o...
Apr 23, 2024•33 min•Ep. 126
Welcome to the final part of our Disasters: Deconstructed mini-series from Fishlake, UK! Thank you so much to Dave Angel for producing this wonderful local artifact, and sharing his creative process with us. I hope you all are inspired as much as we are!! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Dave Angel’s contact: d.angel@lboro.ac.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-a...
Mar 05, 2024•22 min•Ep. 125
We are back with Dave Angel for the second episode of our Disasters: Deconstructed mini-series from Fishlake, UK. Thanks for joining us! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: Dave Angel’s contact: d.angel@lboro.ac.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-angel-5444a6226/ Loughborough HOME CDT doctoral research project https://meaningofhome.uk/ The Meaning of Home CDT Podca...
Feb 20, 2024•24 min•Ep. 124
Welcome to the first episode of our Disasters: Deconstructed mini-series from Fishlake, UK. Your host for this series is Dave Angel, a musician-composer who has spent most of his life in the area. The series draws on his PhD work "‘Effing Awful!’: Deep, Dirty, Dangerous Water. Developing an audio representational method to develop empathy around post-flood experiences in two South Yorkshire villages." Over to Dave for the mini-series! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon ...
Feb 09, 2024•27 min•Ep. 123
Happy New Year and welcome back for Season 9 of Disasters: Deconstructed!!! We can't wait to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. This season we will be exploring local stories through 3 mini-series from around the world. Tune in to hear more about what we have in store :) Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Music this week from "Thinking ...
Jan 29, 2024•27 min•Ep. 122
We really appreciate you all tuning in for Season 8 of Disasters: Deconstructed! In this Season Wrap we look back at some of the best bits from our discussions and the key themes emerging. Join us again in a few months for Season 9 when we concentrate on local stories from communities living with risk around the world Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Music this week from "Continent" by AMBR....
May 30, 2023•34 min•Ep. 121
Thanks everyone for joining us this season! We have really enjoyed speaking with our incredible guests who taught us about solidarity from so many angles. This is our penultimate episode, and we are super excited to spend it with our season 4 co-host, Darien Alexander Williams! Since he was last on the podcast, Darien completed his doctorate and is an incoming Assistant Prof. at Boston University. As many of you know, he is an urban planner who studies Blackness, Islam and disaster. Being an act...
May 18, 2023•31 min•Ep. 120
Today we welcome indie singer/songwriter David Rovics to Disasters: Deconstructed! David has produced an incredible body of anti-capitalist and community-grounded work, emerging as a prominent social critic on issues that we care about on DD, militarism, globalisation, environmental crisis, consumerism and gentrification. In this episode we talk about how music can bring people together in struggle! Thanks for listening. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Revie...
May 01, 2023•36 min•Ep. 119
Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! Today A.J. Faas is joining us to discuss his new book, In the Shadow of Tungurahua, and how some of its key themes link to our season on solidarity. We consider minga, deservingness, and vulnerability - thanks for joining us! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information: In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador Our gue...
Apr 18, 2023•41 min•Ep. 118
في هذه الحلقة نواصل مناقشتنا (بالعربية) حول الزلزال المدمر الذي ضرب تركيا وسوريا في فبراير 2023. نتحدث عن آخر الإحصائيات والتحديثات حول الكارثة ، ونناقش مواضيع مهمة مثل انتشار المعلومات كاذبة في أوقات الكوارث. بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، نشرح كيف يمكن للناس معرفة ما إذا كانت منازلهم مصممةضد مثل هذه المخاطر الطبيعية ، ونقدم المشورة للأشخاص الذين يرغبون في بناء أو شراء منازل جديدة في هذا الصدد. In this episode, we continue our discussion (in Arabic) about the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syri...
Apr 12, 2023•55 min•Ep. 117
Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! As we continue our exploration of solidarity in season 8, we are really happy to share this conversation we had with Dr Areum Jeong. Areum holds a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her training consists of a thorough grounding in the history of theater and performance, and her work takes a transnational approach to twentieth and twenty-first-century Asian and Asian American cinema, theater and performa...
Mar 22, 2023•31 min•Ep. 116
Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed. We have a really special episode for you today, which we hope will highlight International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8th! Joining us is Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly. Charrise is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology. Charisse’s work focuses on the transnational entanglements of U.S. racial capit...
Mar 07, 2023•43 min•Ep. 115
في هذه الحلقة ، ولأول مرة باللغة العربية ، نتحدث عن الزلزال المدمر الذي ضرب تركيا وسوريا يوم الاثنين 6 فبراير 2023 ، مخلفًا وراءه أكثر من 28000 حالة وفاة. نناقش تأثير الزلازل على البيئة المبنية في الشرق الأوسط ، وفي بلاد الشام على وجه الخصوص ، ونتحدث عن العوامل المختلفة التي تساهم في تحويل هذه الأخطار الطبيعية إلى كوارث واسعة النطاق In this episode, and for the first time in Arabic, we talk about the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, February the 6th, 2023, leaving behi...
Feb 13, 2023•45 min•Ep. 114
Thanks for joining us again as we explore solidarity! Today we are joined by Kim Fortun, a Professor in the University of California Irvine’s Department of Anthropology. Her work focuses on environmental risk and disaster, and on experimental ethnographic methods and research design. You may know her from the Disaster-STS Research Network or as past-President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Kim is also one of the editors of the new Journal of Disaster Studies that we have mentioned...
Feb 07, 2023•42 min•Ep. 113
Today we continue our explorations under the theme of solidarity! We are so pleased to be in conversation with Dr. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, who is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University. Alex’s research focuses on religious anarchism and increasingly anarcho-pacifism, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, and he is the author of a recently published book ‘Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm T...
Jan 24, 2023•45 min•Ep. 112
We are so happy to wish you all a Happy New Year and welcome you back for Season 8 of Disasters: Deconstructed!!! We can't wait to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. In season 8 we will be bringing you fresh content all around the theme of solidarity. And to help us get started, we have Dr. Jacob Remes here to help us introduce the season today! Jacob is a historian of urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration, at Gall...
Jan 09, 2023•34 min•Ep. 111
Thank you all so much for joining us again or for the first time in 2022 - We hope you enjoyed seasons 6 and 7 and and learned a thing or two like we did! Thanks to all of our amazing guests and friends of the show. So, here is our annual Christmas Special! As always, join us for games, jokes and stories! We appreciate you all for listening and supporting our work. Jason & Ksenia Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever...
Jan 03, 2023•51 min•Ep. 110
Thank you all for joining us for another Season of Disasters: Deconstructed! We appreciate 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 discuss why reading outside of disaster studies is so important, with some help from our listeners! Further information: L'envers Des Catastrophes Podcast (Disasters: Deconstructed - French language version) Desastres: Deconstruidos Podcast (Di...
Jan 02, 2023•38 min•Ep. 109
Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Maha Shuayb to read our final book of the season, "Patriarchy of the Wage" by Silvia Federici. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! Further information: Patriarchy of the Wage Our guests: Maha Shuayb (@MahaShuayb) 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 o ur Youtube...
Dec 31, 2022•43 min•Ep. 108
Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Estella Carpi to read "Pedagogy of Indignation" by Paulo Freire. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! Further information: Pedagogy of Indignation Our guests: Estella Carpi (@estycrp) 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 o ur Youtube channel . Also, please join u...
Dec 30, 2022•50 min•Ep. 107
Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Noémie Bautista Gonzalez to read "Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! Further information: Pollution in Colonialism Our guests: Noémie Bautista Gonzalez (@noemie_go) 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 o ur Youtube cha...
Dec 13, 2022•50 min•Ep. 106
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 o ur Youtube channel . Also, please join u...
Dec 06, 2022•44 min•Ep. 105
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 ...
Nov 30, 2022•41 min•Ep. 104
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 Easthop...
Nov 14, 2022•49 min•Ep. 103
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. Chec...
Aug 25, 2022•44 min•Ep. 102
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 channe l. 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 Pl...
Aug 11, 2022•47 min•Ep. 101
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! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!...
May 16, 2022•35 min•Ep. 100
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! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Further information:...
Apr 25, 2022•31 min•Ep. 99
