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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S7E6 - Reading Pollution Is Colonialism
S7E5 - Reading Decolonial Ecology
S7E3 - Remaining Human in Emergency Planning
S7E2 - Borders and Disaster
S7E1 - Season Introduction: Critical Theory, and Reading Books!
S6E9 - Season Wrap
S6E8 - Emancipatory Participation
S6E7 - Anti-Oppressive Theory
S6E6 - Early Career Research Excellence
S6E5 - Engaging with Communities
S6E4 - Creative Methodologies
S6E3 - Insiders and Outsiders
S6E2 - Researcher Positionality
S6E1 - Emerging Voices
Christmas Special 2021
Friday Special! Artistic Expression of Being
S5E9 - Season Finale!
S5E8 - Plague and the Folly of Technological Fixes
S5E7 - Communication for Social Change
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