Guest editorial: Introduction to calling for change in disaster studies – rethinking disaster studies

• Published in: Disaster prevention and management Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 177 - 181
• Main Authors: Yadav, Punam, Lassa, Jonatan, Marchezini, Victor, van Niekerk, Dewald
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Publishing Limited 02.06.2022; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Black people; Climate change; Climate change research; Colour; Critical race theory; Decolonization; Disaster studies; Disasters; Epistemology; Feminism; Gender; Gender equity; Hegemony; Knowledge; Ontology; Oppression; Questions; Race; Racism; Sex discrimination; Sociology; Chile; United States > US; India
• ISSN: 0965-3562; 1758-6100
• DOI: 10.1108/DPM-06-2022-418

The authors pointed out the limitations of the traditional knowledge production system embedded in disaster and climate change research studies, showing that knowledge production in research processes conforms to colonialist thinking or West-inspired approaches. Using critical race theory (CRT) and Black Sociology, theoretical and disciplinary frameworks that centre Black people and non-Black people of colour (NBPOC), the article calls for the “disaster racism” approach to dismantling systemic racism and other oppressive systems, as well as to promote an anti-racist research agenda in the discipline of sociology of disaster. The authors proposed the intriguing question in the introduction: “What does it mean to do disaster studies from and for the South?” Authors responded to this question and provided definition of the concepts, problematizing them based on evidence collected in their field research. [...]they draw attention to a social ontology of resilience as the examples underscore the