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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S5E6 - Disaster as Event or Process?
S5E5 - LGBTQI Experiences
S5E4 - Recovery Beyond Physical Reconstruction
S5E3 - Gravity, Hazards & Disasters
S5E2 - Revisiting the Idea of Disaster
S5E1 - Technical Experts with Social Conscience
Voices of Asia-Pacific Youth on COVID-19 - Part 2 - Looking Forward
Voices of Asia-Pacific Youth on COVID-19 - Part 1 - Stories of Impact
S4E15 - Season Wrap
S4E14 - Gender & Sexuality
S4E13 - Community-Centered Work in South-East Asia
S4E12 - Mainstreaming DRR & Caribbean Solidarity
S4E11 - The Amazon and Urban Development
S4E10 - DRR in Latin America & the Caribbean
S4E9 - Coloniality & Disasters
S4E8 - Vulnerability (Audience Special)
S4E7 - Vicarious Trauma
S4E6 - Infrastructure Justice
S4E5 - Radio Storytelling
S4E4 - Public Schools
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