Southasiadisasters.net Special Issue No. 211, June 2024

INTRODUCTION

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘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. Read 17 vibrant contributors-provoking perspectives to help you find your way to disaster risk reduction and preparedness for the future.

IN THIS ISSUE

1. Introduction by Emmanuel Raju, JC Gaillard, and Mihir R. Bhatt
2. Rains, Power and Waves of Recoveries by Emmanuel Raju, Director, Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
3. Disaster Risk Reduction as an Illusion by JC Gaillard, Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa University of the Philippines Resilience Institute
4. Price of Patti’s Land by Suchismita Goswami, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
5. What Postcolonial ‘Disaster Risk Reduction’ may look like in South Asia? by Mahbuba Nasreen and Raisa Imran Chowdhury, GRRIPP-South Asia
6. 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
7. Postcolonial Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal: Insights from the Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet) Experience by Surya Bahadur Thapa, Chairperson, Disaster Preparedness Network (DPNet), Nepal
8. 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
9. Postcolonial DRR: COAR Experience in Afghanistan by Abdul Halim, Director General, Citizens Organization for Advocacy and Resilience (COAR), Kabul, Afghanistan
10. 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
11. Disaster Risk Reduction in Pakistan: Reimagining an Inclusive Response by Nirmal Riaz, Senior Research Associate, Karachi Urban Lab, IBA, Pakistan
12. Decolonising Climate Coloniality by Farhana Sultana, Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA
13. Colonial Logics, Postcolonial Futures, and Flooding Disasters in Pakistan by Ayesha Siddiqi, Assistant Professor, Human Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
14. 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
15. 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
16. Self-Rule is the Key to Achieve Postcolonial DRR by Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India
17. સંસ્થાનવાદી આફતનિવારણ અને સ્વરાજ (DRR and Self-rule) by Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, India