Reimagining Disasters

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’.

• 1. Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse 2. Deconstructing Nature in Natural Hazards 3. Gudagod: Indigenous Kankanaey People's Perspectives on Disasters 4. Reimagining Disaster Preparedness in Indigenous Nepal 5. Extractivism and Disasters at the End of the World: Reflections on Life and Death from Northern Chile 6. Beyond the Western Lens of Resilience: Understanding Local Framings Through Analogies, Idioms and Proverbs in Zimbabwe 7. Re-Thinking Gender Beyond the Binary in Disasters: Othering and Hybrid Identities of Hijras in India 8. Conclusion