Disaster studies inside out

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3897685
AutoresJ Gaillard (0000-0001-5487-6997, University of Auckland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen43
NúmeroS1
PáginasS7-S17
Fecha de publicación2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/disa.12323
PMID30575089
OpenAlexW2906627758
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas90
Referencias citadas24

Disaster studies is faced with a fascinating anomaly: frequently it claims to be critical and innovative, as suggested by the so-called vulnerability paradigm that emerged more than 40 years ago, yet often it is perpetuating some of the core and problematic tenets of the hazard paradigm that we were asked to challenge initially. This paper interrogates why such an anomaly persists. In so doing, it employs Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony to unpack why disaster studies is still dominated by Western epistemologies and scholars that perpetuate an orientalist view of disasters. Ultimately, it suggests a research agenda for the 40 years to come, which builds on the importance of local researchers analysing local disasters using local epistemologies, especially in the non-Western world. Such subaltern disaster studies are to be fuelled by increasing consciousness of the need to resist the hegemony of Western scholarship and to relocate disaster studies within the realm of its original political agenda

Computer security · Disaster research · Geography · Hazard · Hegemony · Orientalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Scholarship · Sociology · Subaltern · Vulnerability (computing · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · History · Law · Political theory and Gramsci