Full Description
This edited book establishes a justice‑oriented agenda for understanding and acting on disasters in the world's most hazard‑exposed regions. Challenging technocratic and event‑centred framings, the volume theorises disasters as historically produced and politically mediated, tracing how colonialism, capitalism, extractivism, and uneven governance create and compound risk. Across four parts—foundations; (re)conceptualising disasters; methods; and critical voices from the field—the chapters develop key ideas such as critical vulnerability, structural/prospective amnesia, and disaster populism; advance plural, decolonising methodologies (including talanoa, autoethnography and co‑production of knowledge); and offer grounded cases from Aotearoa New Zealand, Japan, the Philippines, Rapa Nui, Chile, Vietnam and the Pacific. In doing so, Critical Disaster Studies in Asia and the Pacific centres Indigenous and local epistemologies, Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI)‑informed practice, and systems-behaviour models for transformative disaster risk reduction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars across disciplines, this is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners and policymakers seeking to move from managing hazards to transforming the conditions that generate disaster risk.
Contents
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.
