Critical Disaster Studies in Asia and the Pacific

Shinya Uekusa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. His work focuses on disaster linguicism, vulnerability, reflexivity, and the experiences of migrants and other minoritised groups in crisis. He co-edited A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch: Critical Disaster Studies Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).Kien Nguyen Trung is GEDSI and Research Lead at Water Sensitive Cities Australia, Monash Art, Design, and Architecture, Monash University. An applied sociologist, he works at the intersection of disaster risk, climate adaptation, behaviour change, system transformation, and AI assisted qualitative methods. He serves on several journal editorial boards, including Disaster Prevention and Management, The Qualitative Report and International Journal of Qualitative Methods.Sébastien Penmellen Boret is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan. His research examines death, memory and inclusion in disaster contexts in Japan and Indonesia. He is author of Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death (2014) and co-editor of Death in the Early Twenty First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

• Chapter 1 — Foundations of Critical Disaster Studies.- Chapter 2 — Locations and Dislocations.- Chapter 3 — Critical Disaster Studies in Asia and the Pacific.- Chapter 4 — Critical Vulnerability.- Chapter 5 — Exploring the Convergence of Critical Disaster Studies and Critical Migration Studies Perspectives.- Chapter 6 — Social Murder.- Chapter 7 — The Three-Body Problem in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Disaster Risk Reduction.- Chapter 8 — Situating Disaster Knowledge.- Chapter 9 — Making Disaster Risk Reduction Inclusive and Equitable.- Chapter 10 — Methods Matter.- Chapter 11 — Reflexivity and Positionality in Critical Disaster Studies.- Chapter 12 — Autoethnography and Collaborative Autoethnography in Critical Disaster Studies.- Chapter 13 — Tracing (In)Visible Resilience of Pacific Island Communities through Critical Disaster Studies.- Chapter 14 — Navigating Transdisciplinarity and Knowledge Co-Creation Approaches.- Chapter 15 — How to Erect TEPCO’s Grave.- Chapter 16 — “Slash and Burn”.- Chapter 17 — “It made me absolutely love Christchurch more”.- Chapter 18 — Disaster Populism.- Chapter 19 — Reorganising Life from the Kāiŋa.- Chapter 20 — How System Shifts and Practice Innovation Co-Produce the Progression of Vulnerability.- Chapter 21 — Restricting or Expanding Disaster Interpretations.