Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

Thank you for joining us for Season 3! Today we look back at some of our favorite bits from each episode, and look forward to what is next for Disasters: Deconstructed!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Music this week from "Closer" by Ian Post.   

Today we welcome Dewald van Niekerk, editor-in-chief of Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, to the show! We hope you enjoy this discussion about academic publishing - we talk about access, audience, language and more!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information: Jàmbá: Journa...

This week Dr Sarah DeYoung, core faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, joins us to talk public health!  We discuss some of the work that she has been doing in 2020 and broader concerns about trust and communication.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further...

Thanks to Mihir Bhatt for being with us this week! Mihir is the Director of the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), an organization focused on community-based action planning, action research and advocacy in disaster mitigation. Our conversation focuses on how we can learn so much from those experiencing risk, and how we need to center these people and their capacities rather than alw...

So often we think of "community-based" work as being about the location alone, but this week Zenaida Delica-Willison joins us to discuss her life's work of putting the people that live actually in a place at the center of both disaster related decision-making and narratives. We are so pleased to share this interview that gives us a look into her influential and pioneering work on Community-Based D...

This week we are back again with JC Gaillard to talk about the Disaster Studies Manifesto. Following on from Part 1, we consider responses to more question from our listeners, and then have an overall discussion: 3. What are your relationships with research partners from within/outside your study areas?   Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcast...

This is the first of a two part series where some of our listeners and friends reflected on the Disaster Studies Manifesto and responded to some questions that we released for open comment. In Part 1, JC Gaillard joins us to listen to the submissions we received and briefly discuss.  We are considering the following questions: 1. Is our current terminology/concepts appropriate for working in a non...

Thank you so much to Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek for joining us again for this week's episode!! We recapped on an amazing Virtual Hazards Workshop in July and discussed hope in the hazards and disaster field, from personal growth to collective action.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe wherever you get your podc...

Today we are joined by Aparna Tandon, Senior Programme Leader at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM). Join us for a discussion about the importance of preserving cultural heritage through disasters, and the tensions that arise!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Subsc...

Today we are so happy to have the founders of the Nakuru Accord - a call to commit to publicly sharing failures and learning from each other - on the show. Welcome Dani Barrington, Esther Shaylor & Becky Sindall! We love their Twitter account, Wash Failures and it was so much fun to sit down and discuss the importance of failure in research and practice!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Face...

Today we welcome photographer Charles Fox to the show! We discussed his years of creative work in Cambodia, as a photojournalist and more. It's so important to consider the humanity in all its complexity that exists beyond the "disaster event" images that are often a viewer's only lens into a place. We discuss Charles' book project "Buried" and the collaborative form of storytelling that he undert...

We are delighted to welcome Barefoot Bob Alexander to the show today! Bfb is a disaster risk management consultant, musician and international man of mystery. Everyone who has met him has a story or two to tell! In this episode we talk about risk communication through song and video and other participatory approaches.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review...

We love making Disasters: Deconstructed, and this week we speak to some creators that are an inspiration to us! Mitch Stripling and Andrew McMahan are probably no strangers to you - the hosts of Dukes of Hazards. Today we sit down and discuss podcasting; the awkwardness, creative process, and humor when discussing distressing topics like disasters. Check it out!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram...

This week we are so pumped to bring you a fascinating discussion with Dave and Alex from Out of the Woods, a writing collective that recently published the book Hope Against Hope: Writings on Ecological Crisis . We talk about the power of collective creativity, climate crisis, narratives and stories, humanity, capitalism and disaster communism - trust us, it's epic.    Follow us on Twitter, Instag...

We are so pleased to have Karen Gadbois with us today! She is a reporter and founder of The Lens, a New Orleans based local news source. We discuss the importance of local reporting and the kind of impact that good reporting can have in helping people to demand more accountable and just governance.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Su...

This week Jason and Ksenia are busy at the Natural Hazards Workshop (it's virtual this year!) but we are so happy to bring you this episode about disaster reporting with possibly our most frequent guest, Dr Samantha Montano!  We talk about why reporting about disasters is sometimes off base, and why relationships between scientists and journalists are so necessary.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagr...

Welcome to Season 3!!!  Thanks for joining us again - or for this first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. To help us kick off the new season, Drexel University historian Scott Knowles sat down with us for a chat about the importance of historical context to the disaster impacts that we see around us in the present.  We can't wait to bring you the rest of the Season 3 episodes. So m...

Today we bring you a very special episode that we recorded with the editors and some authors of a special issue of Disaster Prevention and Management Journal. The collection of papers commemorates the 10th anniversary of the l'Aquilla earthquake, and drew a range of critical scholarly contributions. We are so pleased to bring you this discussion with 5 wonderful Italian disaster researchers about...

Another special episode for you all today! We are discussing positive responses to COVID-19 - examples of how people as individuals and in a variety of groups are reaching out to others in ways that use, reinforce and cultivate capabilities and the institutions that enable humans to thrive together. Enjoy!     Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Subscribe your favorite app...

Thank you all SO MUCH for joining us this season! Welcome to our new listeners, and to those who have been with us from the start, thanks for still being here :) Today we have a wrap up episode for you - Ksenia and Jason discuss some of the key themes and ideas that have emerged and shone in season 2. We hope you enjoy the recap, and we can't wait to see you again in Season 3 in July (and before t...

This week we are so pleased to sit down with Jamie Vickery to discuss how disasters affect people experiencing homelessness, and some of the deeper issues at play that are too often overlooked. We cover emergency response, policy, trust and narratives, and consider how we might challenge a culture that normalizes homelessness as a cautionary tale.    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @D...

Thanks to Carlee Purdum from the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M for joining us this week to share about her research on disasters and prisoners, and unpack some of the narratives that shape our understanding of incarceration, particularly in the United States. How are prisoners particularly at risk in disasters, and how does the state exploit their status as modern day slaves? Dow...

Today we have Kristin Lange from UNICEF visiting with us to talk about people with disabilities!    Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon Join the Community at Discord Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!    Further information:   Guidance on strengthening disability inclusion in Humanitarian Response Plans   Our guests:   Kirstin Lange    Music this week from "Yosemite...

We are so pleased to have Marla Petal with us on the show today! She is the Principal Advisor for Urban Resilience and School Safety for Save the Children and is a prominent and fearless advocate for children and youth around the world. We discuss some of the particular inequalities and injustices faced by children, and why their voices are so important. Again, we discuss the power of narrative an...

One of our most popular Season 1 episodes was "Empire" (S1E14) when Gonzalo Lizarralde joined us to talk about the creation of risk through colonization and imperialism, and which continues through globalized neoliberalism. The content was particularly relevant to our listeners in Latin America, so when Holmes ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Holmes_Paez ) and Claudia (@cgonzalezmuzzio) appr...