Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast
Society & Culture
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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S9E3 - Fishlake (Part 2)
S9E2 - Fishlake (Part 1)
S9E1 - Season Overview
S8E9 - Season Wrap
S8E8 - Scholar Activism
S8E7 - Solidarity through music
S8E6 - Vulnerability and Mutual Aid
Special Episode: Turkey-Syria Earthquake Revisited (Arabic language)
S8E5 - Art for Solidarity
S8E4 - Comrades
Special Episode: Turkey-Syria Earthquake Discussion (Arabic language)
S8E3 - Justice
S8E2 - Anarchism
S8E1 - What is Solidarity?
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S7E9 - Season Wrap
S7E8 - Reading Patriarchy of The Wage
S7E7 - Reading Pedagogy of Indignation
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