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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S3E2 - Disaster Reporting
S3E1 - Why History Matters: a Story of “Unnatural” Disasters
Friday Special! l'Aquila
Friday Special! COVID-19 Positive Responses
S2E17 - Season Wrap
S2E16 - Homeless
S2E15 - Prisoners
S2E14 - Disability
S2E13 - Children
Friday Special! Empire (Spanish Language)
S2E12 - Gender
S2E11 - Making Documentaries
Friday Special! COVID-19
S2E10 - The Story of Places
Friday Special! DD Book Group 1 - The Years of Rice and Salt
S2E9 - Representation and Story Telling
S2E8 - Resilience (Audience Special)
S2E7 - Disasters and Poetry
S2E6 - Social Change Through Film
S2E5 - Participation
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