Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

Today we are excited to spend time with Dr Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete. She is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies, and specialises in gender, disasters, and development. Listen in to our conversation that explores critical issues in participatory research, and conceptions of vulnerability! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

PhotoKwento: co-constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery

Our guests:

Kaira Zoe A. Cañete (@kairazoe)

Music this week from "Caldera" by Oliver Michael. 

Today we are so pleased to share our conversation with Dr. Maíra Irigaray, who is a human rights and environmental lawyer currently working at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) as the Latin America Policy and Research Analyst. She shares about her anti-oppressive approach to research and how it is central to her advocacy for indigenous people’s rights in the Amazon.

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

Dr. Irigaray website

Our guests:

Maíra Irigaray

Music this week from "Think of You" by Oliver Michael. 

We are delighted to bring you this season’s audience participation episode! Today we invited both established disaster scholars and early career researchers to answer two separate questions: 

- From the established scholars, we wanted to know - What is important to you as you engage with Early Career Researchers? 

- And we asked ECRs: What inspires you and what needs challenging?

Tune in to hear the responses that we received and let us know what you think on Twitter! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

Don't miss the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies.” So many amazing contributions from ECRs helping to lead disaster studies towards a more critical future. 

Our guests:

Thanks to everyone that sent us clips - Lori Peek, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, Per Becker, Rohit Jigyasu, Katherine Campos, Tilly Hall, Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo, Nimesh Dhungana,  Vanicka Arora, Sarah Kelly, Noémie Gonzalez Bautista, Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel and Husna Wulansari.

Music this week from "Let Me Down" by Oliver Michael. 

We are so pleased this week on Disasters: Deconstructed to spend time with Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel, Husna Wulansari and Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo! We feature a bit more of practitioner perspective in this episode, as we discuss the practicalities of working with so-called vulnerable groups. 

Each of our guests today also contributed to the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies.” 

Check out their work at the links below! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping - Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel (with Adriano Mota Ferreira, Victor Marchezini, Daniel Andres Rodriguez, Melissa da Silva Oliveira, Daniel Messias dos Santos )

Towards meaningful participation in humanitarian studies: co-researching with persons with disabilities in Central Sulawesi - Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo and Husna Wulansari 

Our guests:

Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel (@Trejo_Miguel)

Chrysant Lily Kusumowardoyo

Husna Wulansari 

Music this week from "Rise & Rise - Song of Breakthrough" C3NC. 

This week on Disasters: Deconstructed we talk to Sarah Kelly and Noémie Bautista Gonzalez about creative methodologies in disaster research! We covered a lot of ground on how and why to challenge normative research approaches, reflexive practices and researcher positionality. We think that they will challenge you to think more creatively about what you do! 

Like many of our guests in Season 6, they each contributed to the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies.” 

Check out their work at the links below! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

Undoing disaster colonialism: a pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile - Sarah Kelly (with Valentina Carraro, José Luis Vargas, Patricio Melillanca and José Miguel Valdés-Negroni)

The importance of context-relevant feminist perspectives in disaster studies. The case of a research on forest fires with the Atikamekw First Nation - Noémie Bautista Gonzalez

Our guests:

Sarah Kelly (@SarahKellygeog)

Noémie Bautista Gonzalez (@noemie_go)

Music this week from "Galaxy" by Sunny Fruit. 

Welcome back to Disasters: Deconstructed! As we continue Season 6 today we are joined by Vanicka Arora and Nimesh Dhungana to discuss insiders and outsiders in disaster research and practice. It's something that has been central to narratives informing the Disaster Studies Manifesto and the Disaster Studies Accord. 

In each of their papers for the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies”, Vanicka and Nimesh share personal experiences of being both insiders and outsiders, and how they navigate power relationships in disaster fieldwork. Check out their work at the links below! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

Reconstruction of heritage in Bhaktapur, Nepal: examining tensions and negotiations between the “local” and the “global” - Vanicka Arora

Aiming at a moving target: methodological reflections on the study of politics of citizen-centric governance in post-earthquake Nepal - Nimesh Dhungana

Our guests:

Vanicka Arora (@VanickaA)

Nimesh Dhungana (@NimeshDhungana)

Music this week from "Let Me Down" by Oliver Michael. 

Today we are pleased to share a conversation with Sneha Krishnan, Susie Goodall, and Anuszka Mosurska, which invited us to reflect on our own positionality and its impact on what we do and how we do it in the context of research! 

In each of their papers for the (double) Special Issue of Disaster Prevention & Management Journal, “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies”,  their voices, experiences and influence (+ those of co-authors) were prominent and were part of the dialogue.

Listen in to hear why Sneha, Susie and Anuszka believe that positionality is important! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

Cross-country use of participatory research methods in practice to enhance inclusive decision-making - Sneha Krishnan, Robert Soden, Bhen Aguihon, Rongkun Liu, Pradip Khatiwada

Disaster conversations: intersecting perspectives on cross-cultural disaster research - Susie Goodall, Zainab Khalid, Monia Del Pinto

The reflective research diary: a tool for more ethical and engaged disaster research - Anuszka Mosurska

Our guests:

Sneha Krishnan (@snek87)

Susie Goodall (@susiegoodall1)

Anuszka Mosurska (@AnuszkaMosurska)

Music this week from "Above All Else" by Campagna. 

We are so happy to wish you all a Happy New Year and welcome you back for Season 6 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. 

Our new season is focused on a cadre of emerging researchers that are challenging the sacred cows of (disaster) research. The season came about through our engagement with Disaster Prevention & Management Journal and the forthcoming Special Issue on “Emerging voices and pathways to inclusive disaster studies”. 

Today we welcome the editors of the special issue, Eefje Hendriks, Laura Kmoch, Femke Mulder & Ricardo Fuentealba, to discuss their vision for this body of work. This will help us to position the season as a whole. In the coming weeks we will speak to many of the contributing authors! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Music this week from "Found You" by Asher Postman. 

Thank you all so much for joining us again or for the first time this year - We hope you enjoyed seasons 4 and 5 and learning from all the incredible guests that shared their time and ideas with us!  Today we are very excited to bring you the 2021 Christmas Special! Don't expect anything too serious, because we are mostly messing about ;) 

We appreciate you all for listening and supporting our work this year. See you in 2022! Jason & Ksenia

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Music this week from "Christmas Morning" by Jakub Pietras and "A Very Sunny Christmas" by Young Rich Pixies. 

We are really excited to release this special episode we recorded with the incredible conceptual artist Paula Morison! It touches on a lot of themes common to Disasters: Deconstructed, in the way that narratives are represented and discussed but we found it amazing to just listen to the thought process behind some of Paula's work. What might be possible if disaster science was more collaborative with the arts? Enjoy! 

Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @DisastersDecon

Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! 

Further information:

https://radar.lboro.ac.uk/artists/paula-morison/

https://www.paulamorison.com/projects/project-014

https://www.paulamorison.com/projects/project-011

Music this week from "Hayat" by Endure.