Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

Over the past few months, Disasters: Deconstructed has partnered with the UN Major Group for Children and Youth as part of the ‘Asia Pacific Researchers, Practitioners, Policy-Makers in Dialogue with Children and Youth Project.’ This is part one of a two-part series sharing local stories from young people about living through COVID-19. Thank you to everyone involved in this important research project, especially all of those who were interviewed!

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About the project!

Music this week from "Flight of The Inner Bird" by Sivan Talmor. 

Thank you for joining us for Season 4! We appreciate you all spending time listening, and all of our amazing guests. In this episode Jason, Ksenia and Darien look back at some of our favorite bits from each episode, and look forward to what's next. 

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Music this week from "Mend and Repeat" by Vic Davi. 

Thank you to Professor Cheryl Potgieter for joining us for the penultimate episode of Season 4 to talk about gender and sexuality! Cheryl is a Research Professor at Durban University of Technology, and Head of Genderjustice,Health and Human Development. She was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In this episode we discuss the importance of politically active scholarship and why we need to center the voices of Black women. What are doing wrong when we discuss sexuality in scientific discourses? How can disaster studies bring sexuality into the frame in a transformative way? 

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Social cohesion, sexuality, homophobia and women’s sport in South Africa

Our guests:

Cheryl Potgieter (Researchgate profile)

Music this week from "Hero for Hire" by Michael Shynes. 

This week we are delighted to discuss the importance of cultivating a community-centered ethos in our research and practice with Jake Rom D. Cadag. Jake is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines and works across academia and NGO sectors in DRR and climate change adaptation. We talk about power dynamics in communities, and the importance of local knowledge and capacities. 

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Jake's profile

Our guests:

Jake Cadag

Music this week from "Are You Alive" by Michael Shynes. 

Thanks so much to Barbara Carby for joining us this week! Barbara is Director of Disaster Risk Reduction Centre at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and the former Director General of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management in Jamaica. We discuss DRR mainstreaming in the Caribbean and how states support each other and leverage their capacities in solidarity, as well as misconceptions about the region and labelling people as "resilient" or "vulnerable". 

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UWE profile

Our guests:

Barbara Carby

Music this week from "Before I Can Fall Asleep" by Michael Shynes. 

This week we welcome Belen Desmaison, a lecturer and researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is coordinator of the action-research project CASA (Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amazónicas) and researches resettlement processes, sustainable and resilient urban and architectural design, and the generation of socially and environmentally just habitats. So excited to share this conversation about feminist urbanism, environmental and spatial justice and development in the Amazon. 

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Belen's profile

Our guests:

Belen Desmaison

Music this week from "Sundown" by Michael Shynes. 

Join us this week for a discussion with DRR expert and #NoNaturalDisasters advocate Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Professor of Natural Hazards and Risk at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. We discuss how risk is created within society and how state responses so often focus on reacting to hazards rather than addressing root causes. What does this mean for Latin America and the Caribbean? How do efforts by organizations like La Red support efforts towards a real understanding of risk? 

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La Red

Our guests:

Irasema Alcántara-Ayala

Music this week from "New Years Day" by Michael Shynes. 

This week Jason & Ksenia kick off the second half of the season (which will focus on the Global South) with a conversation about coloniality and disasters with Dr Danielle Rivera, Assistant Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Just Environments Lab. Join us as we focus on the problems with "event-centric" narratives of disaster that do not reflect the fact that disaster impacts are shaped by structural violence. 

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Just Environments Lab

Disaster Colonialism: A Commentary on Disasters beyond Singular Events to Structural Violence

Our guests:

Danielle Rivera (@danielle_zoe)

Music this week from "Crowns" by Glories. 

Today we bring you a long-promised AUDIENCE SPECIAL on vulnerability!

We asked you a while back, a) What does vulnerability mean to you? and b) Is vulnerability a useful concept? Does it allow us to frame places and people we wish to prioritise?

Thank you all so much for thinking about these questions, and we are glad that many of you got back to us!  Ksenia, Jason & Darien framed today's conversation around the responses received and we hope that this episode can be a conversation starter on another contested concept in disaster studies. 

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Contributors:

Marccus Hendricks (@mdhDuBois)

Monia del Pinto (@moniadelpinto)

R. Shawn Abrahams (@Young_Eukaryote)

Luis Gallegos (@Mr_GLuis)

Jamie Vickery (@JamieVickery)

JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)

Music this week from "Kids" by Christopher Young. 

Today Darien wraps up his curated section of Season 4 and sits down with Benjamin Ruiz Rosado, Senior Training Manager in the Division of Violence Prevention at the Boston Public Health Commission. Benjamin is a public health social worker, an advocate for immigrants, a youth educator, and a firm believer in intersectional racial justice. Don't miss this incredibly rich conversation. 

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Findings from a Feasibility Study of an Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group Intervention to Reduce Depression among LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer) Young People

Our guests:

Benjamin R. Rosado, @justcheckingin.qte (https://www.instagram.com/justcheckingin.qte/)

Music this week from "Dream the World" by John Coggins.