Emmanuel Raju
Biographic Data
| ID | 980896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Raju |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Raju |
| SIGNATURE | RAJU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2348-1850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘My In-Laws Forced Me to Have an Abortion’: Coercive Control and Gendered Entrapment Among Migrant Women During Covid-19 in India
Violence Against Women and Children represents a global health crisis which was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, empirical investigations of how gender-based violence changed with the pandemic remain scarce. This article seeks to understand migrant women’s experiences with coercive control in the context of COVID-19 in India. The VAW literature has increasingly urged us to understand coercive control as the very core of all (gender-based…
Othering and access to housing: A unique navigation of placemaking practiced by thirunangais in urban spaces of Chennai
This article explores the lived experiences of historically marginalized trans-women known as thirunangais in South India in accessing housing through the postcolonial theory of othering. These spaces often become sites where the identities of gender, caste, and class converge, making it precarious and transient. After sustained protests, thirunangais in Chennai were allocated housing in two resettlement sites. Despite state-provided housing, the…
A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking With Disasters
The field of disaster studies remains largely committed to a modernist spatio‐temporal imaginary that persistently emphasises the singularity of a given disaster and often fails to account for the broader set of affairs in which disasters are situated and shaped, in turn leading to circumspect, uninventive and ineffective policy outcomes. In light of these trends, we argue for a paradigm shift in disaster research. In this commentary, we aim to a…
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in anticipatory action for disasters
An examination of the incorporation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in anticipatory action (AA) reveals the latter's potential to strengthen disaster response by addressing pre‐existing inequalities and marginalised needs. Despite the gendered dimensions of disasters being well evidenced, SRHR and other gendered needs remain overlooked in AA programming, exacerbating the risks to women, girls, and intersectionally marginalised…
A scoping review of risk creation in disaster-induced resettlement in the urban
Resettlement is a commonly used recovery strategy in the aftermath of disasters. However, there is very little evidence to show that resettlements lead to disaster risk reduction. Using a scoping review methodology, this paper examines the process and drivers of disaster risk creation in disaster-induced resettlement in the urban. This paper reviewed 77 studies and categorized risks (both new and pre-existing risks that are exacerbated) in urban …
From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management
Strengthening all-of-society approaches for disaster resilient societies through competency building: A European research agenda
The increasing frequency of disasters, alongside the recent COVID-19 pandemic, climate emergency, and ongoing/new crises including conflicts and their disproportionate impacts on many communities, all point towards the cascading, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risks. In the wake of this ever-changing risk landscape, it is paramount to adopt multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary risk reduction, preparedness, and adaptation approaches, which …
Photovoice: A Promising Method for Capturing and Responding to Climate Change
Photovoice is a popular participatory research method for instigating critical reflection and social change. It does, however, rely on participants being able to photographically capture the phenomenon under study. This raises challenging questions that may obstruct the use of Photovoice in climate change studies. Is climate change visible? Can it be photographically captured? What change can Photovoice instigate in the context of global climate …
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
This commentary proposes a new approach to understanding postdisaster housing resettlement of informal neighborhoods in Indian cities that forefronts the longue durée. We argue that resettlement should not be viewed as simply a causal response to urban challenges of disasters, climate change, urban crowding and inequality. Disasters and postdisaster resettlements are deeply political. And, as seeing as resettled communities contend with both pers…
Rethinking Vulnerability in the Nordic countries: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to rethink our understanding of vulnerability. This conversation has started to emerge in different forums across the Nordics. In this context, the Nordics have seen different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this piece, we present three dimensions needed to push beyond the traditional notions of categories in understanding vulnerability. We also present different examples on how vulnerability …
The Covid-19 quandemic
BACKGROUND: The terms syndemic and infodemic have both been applied to the COVID-19 pandemic, and emphasize concurrent socio-cultural dynamics that are distinct from the epidemiological outbreak itself. We argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed yet another important socio-political dynamic that can best be captured by the concept of a quandemic - a portmanteau of "quantification" and "pandemic". MAIN TEXT: The use of quantifiable metrics in…
A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia
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 hybr…
Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kerala, India
This paper analyses findings of the 'PROWELLMIGRANTS'2 project, which qualitatively investigated COVID-19 impacts on migrants' well-being and mental health in Kerala, India. It draws on a novel conceptual framework that combines assemblage-thinking with theories of social contracts in disasters. The paper first explores how past development processes and contemporary migration policies in Kerala, and India more widely, generated conditions of vul…
The making of India's Covid-19 disaster: A Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Assemblage analysis
This article analyses the suite of policies and measures enacted by the Indian Union Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through apparatuses of disaster management. We focus on the period from the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, until mid-2021. This holistic review adopts a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Assemblage conceptual approach to make sense of how the COVID-19 disaster was made possible and importantly how it was responde…
Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Mayer 1
A rejoinder to Benoit Mayer's response to our article “Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative”1. In the article Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative, we argue that an enhanced and wider understanding of attribution science will shape the social superstructure narrative of climate change. This social superstructure narrative influences c…
Temperatures on the rise: Adapting to heat extremes in South Asia. Conversation on the Nordic Asia Podcast
Purpose This conversation presents reflections on heatwaves, vulnerability and adaptation in South Asia. Design/methodology/approach This is based on the Nordic Asia Podcast on Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia. Findings Main themes discussed in this conversation include vulnerability and adaptation, livelihoods and cascading disasters. Originality/value This conversations adds value to the ongoing discussions on c…
Disaster Risk
The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate students studying geography and environmental studies/s…
What was known: Weather forecast availability and communication in conflict-affected countries
Armed conflict increases people's vulnerability to climate extremes. Since many of these climate extremes are predictable beforehand, Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) can help protect people's lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing. While such EWEA systems exist in several countries, there is limited scientific knowledge about EWEA in conflict-affected countries where communities experience the compounding effects of both disaster and conflict risks.…
Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative
Climate litigation has become a strategic tool to push for climate justice, including compensation for losses caused by climate change. Many cases rely on the establishment of a causal relationship between the defendants' emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and the plaintiffs' losses. All decided cases seeking compensation for a concrete climate related impact have been unsuccessful (thus far). Legal scholars as well as social and natural scientis…
A global mental health opportunity: How can cultural concepts of distress broaden the construct of immobility
(Im)mobility studies often focus on people on the move, neglecting those who stay, are immobile, or are trapped. The duality of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis creates a global mental health challenge, impacting the most structurally oppressed, including immobile populations. The construct of immobility is investigated in the context of socio-political variables but lacks examination of the clinical psychological factors that impact …
Understanding Disaster Risk
Not an ‘either/or’: Integrating mental health and psychosocial support within non-communicable disease prevention and care in humanitarian response
Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda
The effects of climate change, whether they be via slow- or rapid-onset events such as extreme events, are inflicting devastating losses and damage on communities around the world, with the most vulnerable affected the most. Although the negative impacts of climate change and the concept of loss and damage are included in international conventions, such as the United Nations Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage and Article 8 of the …
Strengthening Governance for Disaster Prevention: The Enhancing Risk Management Capabilities Guidelines
Addressing capacities of local communities in a changing context in Nepal
Purpose The field study aimed at exploring how capacities are influenced by external factors in the context of community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR). Design/methodology/approach The field study was conducted in a small rural area called Lapsibot in Lamjung district in Nepal. The article is based on a fieldwork conducted in April 2018. The different tools of data collection were inspired by the vulnerability and capacity assessment appro…
Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance: Where Are We Headed
This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…
Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kerala, India
This paper analyses findings of the 'PROWELLMIGRANTS'2 project, which qualitatively investigated COVID-19 impacts on migrants' well-being and mental health in Kerala, India. It draws on a novel conceptual framework that combines assemblage-thinking with theories of social contracts in disasters. The paper first explores how past development processes and contemporary migration policies in Kerala, and India more widely, generated conditions of vul…
The Politics of Disaster Risk Governance and Neo-Extractivism in Latin America
Latin America is one of the regions facing many disasters with some of the worse impacts. The current governance model has not proven successful in disaster risk reduction. This article aims to theoretically analyse the relationship between ideal regional disaster risk governance (DRG) and the actual production of disaster risk in Latin America. From the so-called ‘vulnerability paradigm’ and a regional standpoint, this analysis contributes to th…
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
This commentary proposes a new approach to understanding postdisaster housing resettlement of informal neighborhoods in Indian cities that forefronts the longue durée. We argue that resettlement should not be viewed as simply a causal response to urban challenges of disasters, climate change, urban crowding and inequality. Disasters and postdisaster resettlements are deeply political. And, as seeing as resettled communities contend with both pers…
Disaster resilience and complex adaptive systems theory: Finding common grounds for risk reduction
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of resilience into the contemporary discourse of disaster risk. As a counter position to the current status quo in defining and addressing resilience, this paper introduces the theoretical lens of complex adaptive systems theory (CAS). Some of the key characterisitcs related to CAS are discussed and linkages are made to possible benefit that they might have in enhancing the understan…
Governance in the Sendai: A way ahead
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how governance and accountability have been addressed in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030. Design/methodology/approach The research is mainly based on the analysis of the SFDRR; scientific literature, particularly recent publications covering the SFDRR. The paper also takes into account grey literature. Findings The SFDRR does address issues of governance and accou…
Strengthening Governance for Disaster Prevention: The Enhancing Risk Management Capabilities Guidelines
Addressing capacities of local communities in a changing context in Nepal
Purpose The field study aimed at exploring how capacities are influenced by external factors in the context of community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR). Design/methodology/approach The field study was conducted in a small rural area called Lapsibot in Lamjung district in Nepal. The article is based on a fieldwork conducted in April 2018. The different tools of data collection were inspired by the vulnerability and capacity assessment appro…
Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance: Where Are We Headed
This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…
The Politics of Disaster Risk Governance and Neo-Extractivism in Latin America
Latin America is one of the regions facing many disasters with some of the worse impacts. The current governance model has not proven successful in disaster risk reduction. This article aims to theoretically analyse the relationship between ideal regional disaster risk governance (DRG) and the actual production of disaster risk in Latin America. From the so-called ‘vulnerability paradigm’ and a regional standpoint, this analysis contributes to th…
Understanding Disaster Risk
Not an ‘either/or’: Integrating mental health and psychosocial support within non-communicable disease prevention and care in humanitarian response
Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda
The effects of climate change, whether they be via slow- or rapid-onset events such as extreme events, are inflicting devastating losses and damage on communities around the world, with the most vulnerable affected the most. Although the negative impacts of climate change and the concept of loss and damage are included in international conventions, such as the United Nations Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage and Article 8 of the …
Disaster Risk
The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecting the most recent debates but also older and pioneering discussions in the academic field of disaster studies as well as in the policy and practical areas of disaster risk reduction (DRR). This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate students studying geography and environmental studies/s…
What was known: Weather forecast availability and communication in conflict-affected countries
Armed conflict increases people's vulnerability to climate extremes. Since many of these climate extremes are predictable beforehand, Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) can help protect people's lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing. While such EWEA systems exist in several countries, there is limited scientific knowledge about EWEA in conflict-affected countries where communities experience the compounding effects of both disaster and conflict risks.…
Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative
Climate litigation has become a strategic tool to push for climate justice, including compensation for losses caused by climate change. Many cases rely on the establishment of a causal relationship between the defendants' emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and the plaintiffs' losses. All decided cases seeking compensation for a concrete climate related impact have been unsuccessful (thus far). Legal scholars as well as social and natural scientis…
A global mental health opportunity: How can cultural concepts of distress broaden the construct of immobility
(Im)mobility studies often focus on people on the move, neglecting those who stay, are immobile, or are trapped. The duality of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis creates a global mental health challenge, impacting the most structurally oppressed, including immobile populations. The construct of immobility is investigated in the context of socio-political variables but lacks examination of the clinical psychological factors that impact …
The making of India's Covid-19 disaster: A Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Assemblage analysis
This article analyses the suite of policies and measures enacted by the Indian Union Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through apparatuses of disaster management. We focus on the period from the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, until mid-2021. This holistic review adopts a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Assemblage conceptual approach to make sense of how the COVID-19 disaster was made possible and importantly how it was responde…
Law, justice and the role of courts in changing the social superstructure narrative in climate litigation: A Rejoinder to Benoit Mayer 1
A rejoinder to Benoit Mayer's response to our article “Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative”1. In the article Causality and the fate of climate litigation: The role of the social superstructure narrative, we argue that an enhanced and wider understanding of attribution science will shape the social superstructure narrative of climate change. This social superstructure narrative influences c…
Temperatures on the rise: Adapting to heat extremes in South Asia. Conversation on the Nordic Asia Podcast
Purpose This conversation presents reflections on heatwaves, vulnerability and adaptation in South Asia. Design/methodology/approach This is based on the Nordic Asia Podcast on Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia. Findings Main themes discussed in this conversation include vulnerability and adaptation, livelihoods and cascading disasters. Originality/value This conversations adds value to the ongoing discussions on c…
Rethinking Vulnerability in the Nordic countries: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to rethink our understanding of vulnerability. This conversation has started to emerge in different forums across the Nordics. In this context, the Nordics have seen different responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this piece, we present three dimensions needed to push beyond the traditional notions of categories in understanding vulnerability. We also present different examples on how vulnerability …
The Covid-19 quandemic
BACKGROUND: The terms syndemic and infodemic have both been applied to the COVID-19 pandemic, and emphasize concurrent socio-cultural dynamics that are distinct from the epidemiological outbreak itself. We argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed yet another important socio-political dynamic that can best be captured by the concept of a quandemic - a portmanteau of "quantification" and "pandemic". MAIN TEXT: The use of quantifiable metrics in…
A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia
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 hybr…
Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Kerala, India
This paper analyses findings of the 'PROWELLMIGRANTS'2 project, which qualitatively investigated COVID-19 impacts on migrants' well-being and mental health in Kerala, India. It draws on a novel conceptual framework that combines assemblage-thinking with theories of social contracts in disasters. The paper first explores how past development processes and contemporary migration policies in Kerala, and India more widely, generated conditions of vul…
From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management
Strengthening all-of-society approaches for disaster resilient societies through competency building: A European research agenda
The increasing frequency of disasters, alongside the recent COVID-19 pandemic, climate emergency, and ongoing/new crises including conflicts and their disproportionate impacts on many communities, all point towards the cascading, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risks. In the wake of this ever-changing risk landscape, it is paramount to adopt multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary risk reduction, preparedness, and adaptation approaches, which …
Photovoice: A Promising Method for Capturing and Responding to Climate Change
Photovoice is a popular participatory research method for instigating critical reflection and social change. It does, however, rely on participants being able to photographically capture the phenomenon under study. This raises challenging questions that may obstruct the use of Photovoice in climate change studies. Is climate change visible? Can it be photographically captured? What change can Photovoice instigate in the context of global climate …
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
This commentary proposes a new approach to understanding postdisaster housing resettlement of informal neighborhoods in Indian cities that forefronts the longue durée. We argue that resettlement should not be viewed as simply a causal response to urban challenges of disasters, climate change, urban crowding and inequality. Disasters and postdisaster resettlements are deeply political. And, as seeing as resettled communities contend with both pers…
‘My In-Laws Forced Me to Have an Abortion’: Coercive Control and Gendered Entrapment Among Migrant Women During Covid-19 in India
Violence Against Women and Children represents a global health crisis which was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, empirical investigations of how gender-based violence changed with the pandemic remain scarce. This article seeks to understand migrant women’s experiences with coercive control in the context of COVID-19 in India. The VAW literature has increasingly urged us to understand coercive control as the very core of all (gender-based…
Political science (18 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (17 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental planning (9 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (7 works)