Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | Time: 12:30 pm to 02:00 pm IST

Join us for an online seminar co-organised with the Asian Dynamics Initiative at the University of Copenhagen focussing on Postcolonial Futures for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia. This discussion is guided by All India Disaster Mitigation Institute’s (AIDMI) special issue of Southasiadisasters.net produced by the speakers, which aims to explore postcolonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia. It will offer pathways towards thinking of disaster risk and how to enhance people’s everyday life and livelihoods away from the dogma of Western concepts, frameworks, methodologies and tools.

Case studies from around the region will showcase how we can reinterpret harm and hardship beyond the sole concepts of hazard, vulnerability, resilience, etc. These case studies will further document how people deal with suffering throughout their lives. They will also provide examples of alternative approaches to alleviate harm and hardship that are genuinely grounded in local understanding of the world.