Interruptions: imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America
Disaster Prevention and Management
ISSN: 0965-3562
Article publication date: 11 October 2021
Issue publication date: 2 June 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Based on the research, the authors identify how four key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South.
Design/methodology/approach
Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and current collaborations of authors with communities across Chile.
Findings
The findings suggest that agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability, as fundamental concepts for disaster risk reduction (DRR) theory and practice, need to allow for ambivalences, ironies, granularization and further materializations. The authors identify these characteristics as the conditions that emerge when doing disaster research from within the disaster itself, perhaps the critical condition of what is usually known as the South.
Originality/value
The authors contribute to a reflexive assessment of fundamental concepts for critical disaster studies. The authors offer research-based and empirically rich redefinitions of these concepts. The authors also offer a novel understanding of the political and epistemological conditions of the “South” as both a geography and a project.
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Acknowledgements
Manuel Tironi and Francisco Molina would like to acknowledge funding support from ANID/FONDECYT 1190528; Katherine Campos-Knothe from ANID BECA DOCTORADO NACIONAL 2019/21191843; Enzo Isola from ANID BECA DOCTORADO NACIONAL 2021/21210791; Sarah Kelly from ANID/FONDAP/15110017; Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez from the Center for Indigenous and Intercultural Research (CIIR), ANID/FONDAP/1511006 and ANID/FONDECYT 11180179; Cristóbal Bonelli from the European Research Council (ERC), grant 853133. All authors want to acknowledge funding support from the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN), ANID/FONDAP 15110017.
Citation
Tironi, M., Campos-Knothe, K., Acuña, V., Isola, E., Bonelli, C., Gonzalez Galvez, M., Kelly, S., Juzam, L., Molina, F., Pereira Covarrubias, A., Rivas, R., Undurraga, B. and Valdivieso, S. (2022), "Interruptions: imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0102
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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