Postcolonial Futures for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia

Southasiadisasters.net Special Issue No. 211, June 2024

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net, ‘Postcolonial Futures for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia’, offers pathways towards rethinking disaster risk and enhancing people’s everyday lives and livelihoods, moving away and ahead from mostly Western concepts, frameworks, methodologies, and tools to more plural local pathways and enhanced preparedness for the future.

Articles include:

• Introduction by Emmanuel Raju, JC Gaillard, and Mihir R. Bhatt
• Rains, Power and Waves of Recoveries by Emmanuel Raju, Director, Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Disaster Risk Reduction as an Illusion by JC Gaillard, Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa University of the Philippines Resilience Institute
• Price of Patti’s Land by Suchismita Goswami, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• What Postcolonial ‘Disaster Risk Reduction’ may look like in South Asia? by Mahbuba Nasreen and Raisa Imran Chowdhury, GRRIPP-South Asia
• Knowing the Landscape and Taming the Landscape: Local and Mainstream DRR Perspectives in Nepal by Nyima Dorjee Bhotiya, Dipak Basnet, Tek Bahadur Dong, Anuradha Puri, and The Sajag-Nepal Project Team, Nepal
• Postcolonial Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal: Insights from the Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet) Experience by Surya Bahadur Thapa, Chairperson, Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet), Nepal
• Disasters and the “Other” Gender: The Case of the Hijras in Odisha, India by Aditi Sharan, Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa / The University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Postcolonial DRR: COAR Experience in Afghanistan by Abdul Halim, Director General, Citizens Organization for Advocacy and Resilience (COAR), Kabul, Afghanistan
• Towards a Postcolonial Disaster Risk Reduction Approach in Sri Lanka: A Critique of DRR Policies and Practices by Nishara Fernando, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Disaster Risk Reduction in Pakistan: Reimagining an Inclusive Response by Nirmal Riaz, Senior Research Associate, Karachi Urban Lab, IBA, Pakistan
• Decolonising Climate Coloniality by Farhana Sultana, Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA
• Colonial Logics, Postcolonial Futures, and Flooding Disasters in Pakistan by Ayesha Siddiqi, Assistant Professor, Human Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• From Hazard to Haven: Empowering Child Co-researchers in Transforming a Hazardous Pond into a Vibrant Playground by Mayeda Rashid, PhD, Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia
• Implications of Disaster Risk Reduction from the Colonial Period by Eleonor Marcussen, Researcher in history, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Self-Rule is the Key to Achieve Postcolonial DRR by Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India
• સંસ્થાનવાદી આફતનિવારણ અને સ્વરાજ (DRR and Self-rule) by Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India