Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

Today we welcome indie singer/songwriter David Rovics to Disasters: Deconstructed! David has produced an incredible body of anti-capitalist and community-grounded work, emerging as a prominent social critic on issues that we care about on DD, militarism, globalisation, environmental crisis, consumerism and gentrification. In this episode we talk about how music can bring people together in struggle! Thanks for listening. 

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David's website

Our guests:

David Rovics (@drovics)

Music this week from "6 feet under" by John Isaac. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! Today A.J. Faas is joining us to discuss his new book, In the Shadow of Tungurahua, and how some of its key themes link to our season on solidarity. We consider minga, deservingness, and vulnerability - thanks for joining us! 

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Further information:

In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

Our guests:

A.J. Faas (@ajfaas)

Music this week from "Lioness" by Kevin Graham. 

 في هذه الحلقة نواصل مناقشتنا (بالعربية) حول الزلزال المدمر الذي ضرب تركيا وسوريا في فبراير 2023. نتحدث عن آخر الإحصائيات والتحديثات حول الكارثة ، ونناقش مواضيع مهمة مثل انتشار المعلومات كاذبة في أوقات الكوارث. بالإضافة إلى ذلك ، نشرح كيف يمكن للناس معرفة ما إذا كانت منازلهم مصممةضد مثل هذه المخاطر الطبيعية ، ونقدم المشورة للأشخاص الذين يرغبون في بناء أو شراء منازل جديدة في هذا الصدد.

عامر حمد عيسى أبو خلف مرشح دكتوراه و باحث مساعد في معهد فلوريدا لمرونة البيئة المبنية. عامر مهندس إنشائي ويبحث في إدارة المخاطر وتصميم السلامة مع التركيز على المخاطر الطبيعية ، والبيئة المبنية ، وإدارة الأزمات ، والتخطيط للطوارئ. عامر أيضًا مؤلف في أهم المجلات العلمية في هذا المجال ، بما في ذلك المجلة الدولية للحد من مخاطر الكوارث ، والوقاية من الكوارث وإدارتها ، والمخاطر الطبيعية

مجد برقاش مهندس مدني وطالب دراسات عليا في كلية الأمير حسين بن عبد الله الثاني للدراسات الدولية ، الجامعة الأردنية ، متخصص في حل النزاعات. مجد حاصل على شهادة معهد إدارة المشاريع ولديه أكثر من 12 عامًا من الخبرة في صناعة البناء. عمل مجد في العديد من مشاريع الطاقة النظيفة والنفط والغاز بين الشرق الأوسط وأمريكا الجنوبية

Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience. Amer is a structural engineer and he researches risk management and safety design with a focus on natural hazards, built environment, crisis management, and emergency planning. Amer is also a published author in top journals in the field, including the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Prevention and Management, and Natural Hazards.

Majd Bargash is a civil engineer and a grad student at Prince Hussein Bin Abdulla II College of International Studies, University of Jordan, majoring in Conflict Resolution. Majd is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified practitioner and has over 12 years of experience in the construction industry. Majd worked in several clean energy and oil and gas projects between the Middle East and South America

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Our guests:

Amer Abukhalaf (@AbukhalafAmer)

Majd Bargash (@majdbargash89)

Music this week from "Falling Forward" by Kevin Graham. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed!

As we continue our exploration of solidarity in season 8, we are really happy to share this conversation we had with Dr Areum Jeong. Areum holds a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her training consists of a thorough grounding in the history of theater and performance, and her work takes a transnational approach to twentieth and twenty-first-century Asian and Asian American cinema, theater and performance. Areum is currently working on an upcoming book on the aftermath of the Sewol ferry disaster.

Listen in to this conversation about the Sewol Ferry Disaster and how the victims' families - particularly mothers - have organized and agitated politically using artistic expression. 

Thanks to Dr. Jeong for spending time with us! 

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Further information:

Beyond the Sewol: Performing acts of activism in South Korea

Representing the Unrepresentable in South Korean Activist Performances

Dr. Jeong webpage

Our guests:

Dr. Areum Jeong (@DrAreumJeong)

Music this week from "Stand Down" by Luminar. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed. We have a really special episode for you today, which we hope will highlight International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8th! 

Joining us is Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly. Charrise is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and historical sociology. Charisse’s work focuses on the transnational entanglements of U.S. racial capitalism, anticommunism, and antiblack structural racism. Charisse is the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History and the co-editor of the recent book Organise, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s political writings, with Jodi Dean.

Listen in as we discuss what it is to be a comrade, and how to push back on liberal notions that might equate it with allyship. We learn more about Black Communist Women in the U.S. and unpack tensions around political education and organizing.

Thanks to Dr. CBS for spending time with us! 

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Further information:

Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State

Dr. CBS webpage

Our guests:

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (@blackleftaf)

Music this week from "Lioness" by Kevin Graham. 

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Our guests:

Amer Abukhalaf (@AbukhalafAmer)

Majd Bargash (@majdbargash89)

Music this week from "Falling Forward" by Kevin Graham. 

Thanks for joining us again as we explore solidarity!

Today we are joined by Kim Fortun, a Professor in the University of California Irvine’s Department of Anthropology. Her work focuses on environmental risk and disaster, and on experimental ethnographic methods and research design. You may know her from the Disaster-STS Research Network or as past-President of the Society for Social Studies of Science. Kim is also one of the editors of the new Journal of Disaster Studies that we have mentioned on Disasters: Deconstructed!

We hope you enjoy this discussion on justice, research methods and ethics, and how to collaborate better. 

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Further information:

Disaster-STS Research Network

Advocacy After Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New World Orders 

Profile @ Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography

Kim's profile page

Our guests:

Kim Fortun (@kim_fortun)

Music this week from "Impavid" by Charlie Ryan. 

Today we continue our explorations under the theme of solidarity! We are so pleased to be in conversation with Dr. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, who is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University. Alex’s research focuses on religious anarchism and increasingly anarcho-pacifism, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, and he is the author of a recently published book ‘Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now’.

Hope you enjoy our discussion of anarchism, Tolstoy, and non-violence! 

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Further information:

A pacifist critique of the red poppy

Alex's open access chapter summarising the book

Alex in The Conversation

Anarchist academics mailing list

Anarchist Studies Network

Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence

Our guests:

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (@alex_christoy)

Music this week from "Still Holding On" by Tristan Barton. 

We are so happy to wish you all a Happy New Year and welcome you back for Season 8 of Disasters: Deconstructed!!!  We can't wait to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. 

In season 8 we will be bringing you fresh content all around the theme of solidarity. And to help us get started, we have Dr. Jacob Remes here to help us introduce the season today! Jacob is a historian of urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration, at Gallatin, New York University. 

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Further information:

Jacob's website (with links to his work)

Journal of Disaster Studies

Our guests:

Jacob Remes (@jacremes)

Music this week from "Believe the Hype" by Slpstrm. 

Thank you all so much for joining us again or for the first time in 2022 - We hope you enjoyed seasons 6 and 7 and and learned a thing or two like we did! Thanks to all of our amazing guests and friends of the show. 

So, here is our annual Christmas Special! As always, join us for games, jokes and stories! 

We appreciate you all for listening and supporting our work. Jason & Ksenia

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Music from "Christmas Wish" by Bamtone.