1st Edition
Reimagining Disasters Voices in the Pluriverse
1 Reimagining disasters: voices in the Pluriverse
JC Gaillard and Ksenia Chmutina
2 Deconstructing nature in natural hazards
Christopher Gomez, Ksenia Chmutina and JC Gaillard
3 Gudagod: Indigenous Kankanaey people’s perspectives on disasters
Marjorie Balay-as
4 Reimagining disaster preparedness in Indigenous Nepal
Tek Bahadur Dong, Mukta S. Tamang, Amy Leigh Johnson, Dipak Basnet, Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Anuradha Puri, Sara Shneiderman, Marcus Power, Jonathan Rigg, Jeevan Baniya and Katie Oven
5 Extractivism and disasters at the end of the world: reflections on life and death from Northern Chile
Valentina Acuña and Ricardo Fuentealba
6 Beyond the Western lens of resilience: understanding local framings through analogies, idioms and proverbs in Zimbabwe
Louis Nyahunda, Sizwile Khoza and Livhuwani David Nemakonde
7 Re-thinking gender beyond the binary in disasters: othering and hybrid identities of hijras in India
Aditi Sharan
Conclusions
Ksenia Chmutina and JC Gaillard
Biography
JC Gaillard is Ahorangi o te Matawhenua/Professor of Geography at Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland. His work focuses on power and inclusion in disaster and disaster studies. It includes developing participatory tools for engaging minority groups in disaster risk reduction with an emphasis on cultural and gender minorities, people in detention and children.
Ksenia Chmutina is Professor of Disaster Studies at Loughborough University, UK. Her research focuses on the processes of disaster risk creation in the context of neoliberalism. It brings together critical theory and participatory methodologies to generate transdisciplinary understanding of disasters as socio-political processes. A core part of Ksenia’s activities is science communication: she is a co-host of a popular podcast ‘Disasters: Deconstructed’.
