A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia
Disaster Prevention and Management
ISSN: 0965-3562
Article publication date: 26 February 2024
Issue publication date: 18 April 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This conversation highlights the need to rethink how we approach disaster risk reduction in different South Asian contexts.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on the webinar held as part of Asia Week at the University of Copenhagen which was organised by Asian Dynamics Initiative and Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research on the September 12, 2023.
Findings
The prominent themes emerging from this conversation represents hybridity, self-rule and self-recovery. Along with this we suggest a fundamental turn to ensuring hope, solidarity and empathy is part of a post-colonial future.
Originality/value
The conversation contributes to the ongoing discussions on moving away from colonial practices in disaster risk reduction and disaster studies broadly.
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Acknowledgements
Otter Ai was used to support the first draft of the recording for this transcript.
Emmanuel Raju and Suchismita Goswami acknowledge financial support from the International Research Fund Denmark for the Research Project 2 granted on Disaster Risk Creation in Urban Resettlement Processes, grant number- 1028-00215B; Period: 2021–2025.
‘As this manuscript is a transcript of a historical interview, the peer review has not been anonymous’
Citation
Raju, E., Goswami, S., Fernando, N., Rashid, M., Akter, E., Bhotia, N.D., Sharan, A., Bhatt, M. and Gaillard, J.C. (2024), "A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 33 No. 2, pp. 145-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-10-2023-0265
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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