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Disaster Prevention and Management
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.47  Citation Impact (citeScore): 1 Number of Followers: 27  Hybrid journal * Containing 2  Open Access article(s) in this issue *ISSN (Print) 0965-3562 - ISSN (Online) 1758-6100 Published by Emerald  [362 journals]
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- Why are you in disaster studies' Liberating future scholars from
oppressive disaster science-
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Authors: Victor Marchezini
Abstract: The question of “why we are in disaster studies” can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive disaster science and finding ways to liberate from it. This paper is based on autobiographical research and institutional ethnography to observe and analyze the discourses and practices about career trajectories as students, researchers and professors in disaster studies. The paper provides some categories, concepts, theoretical approaches and lived experiences helpful for discussing ways of liberating disaster studies, such as public sociology of disaster. Few papers have focused on professional trajectories in disaster studies, bringing insights from public sociology and questioning oppressive disaster science.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-11-21
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0150
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies
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Authors: Maria Koreti Sang Yum, Roger C. Baars
Abstract: Research in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners, especially Indigenous communities, to nurture spaces where Indigenous voices are well represented. It is imperative that research in the Pacific should be guided by Pacific research methodologies to maximize positive outcomes (Ponton, 2018) and break free from limited Eurocentric ideologies that are often ill-suited in Pacific contexts. Hazards in the South Pacific region have become more frequent and volatile. This has created a growing interest in the study of disasters in the region. However, current disaster studies in the Pacific are often problematic as they often fail to challenge the implicit coloniality of the discipline. This paper will expand on these arguments, suggesting ways to overcome the limits of common Eurocentric research frameworks in disaster studies and to illustrate the significance and relevance of Pacific methodologies. It is pertinent that critical disaster studies encapsulate Pacific worldviews and knowledge as valued and valid to reconstruct Pacific research. Decolonizing disaster research will ultimately liberate the discipline from limitations of its colonial past and allow for truly engaging and critical research practices. This paper will illustrate and articulate how Talanoa, a pan-Pacific concept, could offer a more culturally appropriate research methodology to disasters, seen through a Samoan lens. Talanoa is an informal conversation that is widely shared among Pacific communities based on pure, authentic and real conversations which are crucial elements in building relationships with Pacific communities (Vaioleti, 2006).
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-11-14
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0124
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Interorganizational networks in response to the critical infrastructure
breakdown: case of the 2018 KT network blackout-
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Authors: NakHyeok Choi, KyungWoo Kim
Abstract: This study aims to demonstrate how governmental authorities can take interorganizational network responses to address unexpected situations developed by the breakdown of critical infrastructure, such as communication failure in a hyperconnected society. This study uses social network analysis to investigate the performance of interorganizational response networks regarding the 2018 KT network blackout, a failure of telecommunication facility, compared to the planned network. The national fire agency was the most prominent actor in the actual interorganizational network, while the actor was not significant in the planned network in addressing unexpected needs. Moreover, top government authorities were involved in the actual response network because of the national attention on the breakdown of the infrastructure as a focusing event. Unexpected conditions in the actual response to a technological disaster, such as a critical infrastructure (CI) breakdown, require the involvement of emerging or non-significant actors in accordance with the findings related to other types of disasters. Particularly, communication failure in a hyperconnected society may involve prominent government authorities in the actual interorganizational response because of the event's broad and severe impact on the functions of society.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-11-14
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-01-2023-0011
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Drivers of disaster planning among African-American households
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Authors: Jason M. Pudlo, William Curtis Ellis, Ernest B. McGowen
Abstract: The paper seeks to explore the drivers of disaster planning in African-American households. While the paper is exploratory, the authors attempt to dialogue with substantial theoretical and applied research around vulnerability and disaster. Race, ethnicity and vulnerability are issues deeply entangled with American disaster preparedness and response. In this study, the authors hope to illuminate the threads which bind them together and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between race, ethnicity, class and preparedness. Data for this project come from a disaster planning question placed on the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS). The authors analyze a split sample of around 5,000 African-American households descriptively and with multinomial logistic regression. Disaster planning among African-American households is a product of past experiences, concern about other hazards, social trust and gender identity. These results are similar to other findings within the study of household preparedness and help to advance the understanding of predictors within the African-American community. Key drivers such as income, education level, gender identity, social trust and perceptions of other risks are consistent with previous studies. This project is the first to examine issues of disaster planning utilizing a national sample of African-American households via the one-of-a-kind 2020 CMPS.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-11-10
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0187
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Temperatures on the rise: adapting to heat extremes in South Asia.
Conversation on the Nordic Asia Podcast-
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Authors: Emmanuel Raju, Chandni Singh, Hanna Geschewski
Abstract: This conversation presents reflections on heatwaves, vulnerability and adaptation in South Asia. This is based on the Nordic Asia Podcast on Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia. Main themes discussed in this conversation include vulnerability and adaptation, livelihoods and cascading disasters. This conversations adds value to the ongoing discussions on climate justice, loss and damage.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-08-29
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0185
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Advancing “no natural disasters” with care: risks and strategies to
address disasters as political phenomena in conflict zones
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Authors: Rodrigo Mena
Abstract: The notion that disasters are not natural is longstanding, leading to a growing number of campaigns aimed at countering the use of the term “natural disaster.” Whilst these efforts are crucial, critical perspectives regarding the potential risks associated with this process are lacking, particularly in places affected by violent conflict. This paper aims to present a critical analysis of these efforts, highlighting the need to approach them with care. The author draws upon insights and discussions accumulated over a decade of research into the relationship between disasters and conflict. The article includes a critical literature review on the disaster–conflict relationship and literature specifically addressing the idea that disasters are not natural. The analysis of field notes led to a second literature review covering topics such as (de) politicisation, instrumentalisation, disaster diplomacy, ethics, humanitarian principles, disaster risk reduction, peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity. This analysis underscores the importance of advocating that disasters are not natural, especially in conflict-affected areas. However, an uncritical approach could lead to unintended consequences, such as exacerbating social conflicts or obstructing disaster-related actions. The article also presents alternatives to advance the understanding that disasters are not natural whilst mitigating risks, such as embracing a “do-no-harm” approach or conflict-sensitive analyses. The author offers an innovative critical approach to advancing the understanding that disasters are not natural but socio-political. This perspective is advocated, especially in conflict-affected contexts, to address the root causes of both disasters and conflicts. The author also invites their peers and practitioners to prioritise reflective scholarship and practices, aiming to prevent the unintentional exacerbation of suffering whilst working towards its reduction.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-11-07
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0197
Issue No: Vol. 32, No. 6 (2023)
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- The C-word: how critical cartography, critical GIS and critical data
studies can repoliticise disaster-related maps
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Authors: Valentina Carraro
Abstract: Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used in disaster research and practice. While, in some cases, these practices incorporate methods inspired by critical cartography and critical GIS, they rarely engage with the theoretical discussions that animate those fields. In this commentary, the author considers three such discussions, and draws out their relevance for disaster studies: the turn towards processual cartographies, political economy analysis of datafication and calls for theorising computing of and from the South. The review highlights how these discussions can contribute to the work of scholars engaged in mapping for disaster risk management and research. First, it can counter the taken-for-granted nature of disaster-related maps, and encourage debate about how such maps are produced, used and circulated. Second, it can foster a reflexive attitude towards the urge to quantify and map disasters. Third, it can help to rethink the role of digital technologies with respect to ongoing conversations on the need to decolonise disaster studies. The paper aims to familiarise disaster studies scholars with literature that has received relatively little attention in this field and, by doing so, contribute to a repoliticisation of disaster-related maps.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-10-26
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-04-2023-0077
Issue No: Vol. 32, No. 6 (2023)
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- Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand
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Authors: Kaori Kitagawa
Abstract: This exploratory study discusses the policy learning process of the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy. The paper discusses how DRR has and has not developed in Thailand through the two major disasters: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Great Flood. The information was collected by documentary analysis to gain a historical and critical understanding of the development of the system and policy of DRR in Thailand. Additionally, key stakeholders' interviews were undertaken to supplement the analysis. The paper demonstrates that Thailand's DRR development has been “reactive” rather than “proactive”, being largely directed by global DRR actors. Being a small-scale study, the sample size was small. The analysis and argument would be consolidated with an increase in the number of interviews. The model can help deconstruct which dimension of the learning process a government has/has not achieved well. The application of the “restrictive-expansive policy learning” model, which identifies different dimensions of policy learning, reveals that the Thai government's policy learning was of a mixed nature.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2020-04-14
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2019-0244
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2020)
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