Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

Thank you all for joining us for another Season of Disasters: Deconstructed! We appreciate everyone who listens and engages, joins our livestreams, and of course the amazing guests who bring fresh ideas to challenge and inspire us. 

In the Season Finale we discuss why reading outside of disaster studies is so important, with some help from our listeners! 

Further information:

L'envers Des Catastrophes Podcast (Disasters: Deconstructed - French language version)

Desastres: Deconstruidos Podcast (Disasters: Deconstructed - Spanish language version)

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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Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Maha Shuayb to read our final book of the season, "Patriarchy of the Wage" by Silvia Federici. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! 

Further information:

Patriarchy of the Wage

Our guests:

Maha Shuayb (@MahaShuayb)

Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Estella Carpi to read "Pedagogy of Indignation" by Paulo Freire. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! 

Further information:

Pedagogy of Indignation

Our guests:

Estella Carpi (@estycrp)

Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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Today Ksenia, Jason and Camillo are joined by Dr Noémie Bautista Gonzalez to read "Pollution is Colonialism" by Max Liboiron. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! 

Further information:

Pollution in Colonialism

Our guests:

Noémie Bautista Gonzalez (@noemie_go)

Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

In this episode we sit with Camillo Boano to discuss our reading of Malcom Ferdinand’s “Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World”. Thanks to everyone for joining us in reading critical literature to inform disaster studies this season! 

Further information:

Decolonial Ecology

Our guests:

Camillo Boano (@CamilloBoano)

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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Today we were so happy to sit down with Professor Lucy Easthope, author of "When the Dust Settles" and the UK’s leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been a government advisor on the 2004 Boxing day tsunami, 7/7 bombings in London, Grenfell fire, and the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss disaster language, care for victims and practitioners, and how to work within an often dehumanising response system. Check it out! 

Further information:

When the Dust Settles

Our guests:

Lucy Easthope (@LucyGoBag)

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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Today we are super excited to share our conversation with Harsha Walia, the award-winning author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism - a book we love so much on the podcast! She also wrote Undoing Border Imperialism (published in 2013) and much more. Harsha is a community organiser and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-colonial movements.  We discuss the relationship between borders and the creation of disasters. Check it out! 

Further information:

Border and Rule

Our guests:

Harsha Walia (@HarshaWalia)

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

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Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Welcome back for Season 7 of Disasters:Deconstructed!!!  We are again very excited to spend time with you again - or for the first time - as we explore why disasters really happen. 

As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. The season is focused on reading books and is being co-curated by Professor Camillo Boano! 

Camillo Boano is a professor in Urban Design and Critical Theory at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) and he’s also a professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Today we chat with Camillo about what it is to be critical and why theory is so important for disaster studies. And BOOKS! 

Thanks to everyone on Twitter for helping us to choose the following books for this season. Please read along with us!!

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”

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

And there we have it, another Season of Disasters: Deconstructed in the books! Thank you to everyone who listens and engages, joins our livestreams, and of course the amazing guests who bring fresh ideas to challenge and inspire us. 

In the Season Finale we recap on our favorite moments from the season and chat about what is coming up in the second half of 2022! 

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Further information:

Jargon Jar

Music this week from "The Four Seasons" by Dover Quartet.