Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 31 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Introduction to calling for change in disaster studies – rethinking disaster studies

Punam Yadav, Jonatan Lassa, Victor Marchezini, Dewald van Niekerk

Epistemological freedom: activating co-learning and co-production to decolonise knowledge production

Maheen Khan, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Mohammad Feisal Rahman, Saleemul Huq

The purpose of the paper is to challenge and address the limitations of the traditional system of knowledge production that is embedded in disaster and climate change research…

Local perspectives on landslide prevention and management in Kalimpong district, West Bengal, India

Lochan Gurung, Peter McGowran

This paper is joint reflection on the role of research assistants (RAs) in fieldwork for disaster risk research, particularly at the doctoral level. The paper has been co-authored…

Decolonising knowledge production in disaster management: a feminist perspective

Shazana Andrabi

This paper focuses on how feminist research seeks to integrate the inclusion of women in society for them to be active participants in disaster management, and goes on to prove…

Gender mainstreaming in risk reduction and resilience-building strategies: local conceptualisation of gender and masculinities in Malawi and Zambia

Sizwile Khoza

This paper aims to explore the local conceptualisation of gender and framings of men and masculinities at the local level, which may be applied to improve gender mainstreaming in…

Disaster racism: using Black sociology, critical race theory and history to understand racial disparity to disaster in the United States

Kyle Breen

The purpose of this paper is to provide a call to action to use a new theoretical framework for disaster researchers that focuses on using a critical approach to understanding…

Interruptions: imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America

Manuel Tironi, Katherine Campos-Knothe, Valentina Acuña, Enzo Isola, Cristóbal Bonelli, Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez, Sarah Kelly, Leila Juzam, Francisco Molina, Andrés Pereira Covarrubias, Ricardo Rivas, Beltrán Undurraga, Sofía Valdivieso

Based on the research, the authors identify how four key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions…

Exploring disaster ontologies from Chinese and Western perspectives: commonalities and nuances

Susie Goodall, Yajun Li, Ksenia Chmutina, Tom Dijkstra, Xingmin Meng, Colm Jordan

This paper explores ontological assumptions of disasters and introduces some concepts from Chinese disaster scholarship. The authors suggest an approach to explore and engage with…

Examining relational social ontologies of disaster resilience: lived experiences from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Chile and Andean territories

Eija Meriläinen, Jacquleen Joseph, Marjaana Jauhola, Punam Yadav, Eila Romo-Murphy, Juliette Marin, Shyam Gadhavi

The neoliberal resilience discourse and its critiques both contribute to its hegemony, obscuring alternative discourses in the context of risk and uncertainties. Drawing from the…

Reconceptualizing disaster phases through a Metis-based approach

Joanne Pérodin, Zelalem Adefris, Mayra Cruz, Nahomi Matos Rondon, Leonie Hermantin, Guadalupe De la Cruz, Nazife Emel Ganapati, Sukumar Ganapati

This paper aims to call for change in disaster research through a metis-based approach that values practical skills and knowledge (vs technical knowledge) derived from responding…

Ethical considerations of disaster research in conflict-affected areas

Rodrigo Mena, Dorothea Hilhorst

Debates on the ethics of disaster and humanitarian studies concern unequal relations in research (among research institutes/researchers/stakeholders); the physical and…

Expanding the transdisciplinary conversation towards pluriversal distributive disaster recovery: development ethics and interculturality

Johannes M. Waldmüller

From a Latin American decolonial and transdisciplinary perspective, this article expands the increasingly relevant conversation about disaster ethics, not only in depth and scope…