.... First, we did a broad search for the papers that mention Disaster Studies Manifesto, and secondly, we reviewed all papers published in three disaster journals between 2020 and 2024. We examined patterns across three dimensions: discursive concentration, geographical asymmetry and methodological...

... in a former colony in the Global South. She situates her knowledge within established literature to contribute to the ongoing discussion on decoloniality and the liberation of disaster studies. Findings This article highlights the complex relational dynamics between the Global North and South within...

... to applications in other regional contexts. Originality/value The paper adds a conceptual discussion on the notion of slow disasters as reflected from different Latin American geographies. The paper contributes to ongoing strands of postcolonial disaster studies, departing from empirically grounded...

... with indigenous communities in disaster studies. Specifically, we show that the use of creative methods helped us recognise that agency needs to be framed in collective spaces with the indigenous women we were working with and in relation to their livelihoods needs. We argue that finding spaces to conduct...

... Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Nepal Disability Disaster risk reduction Research methods Qualitative methods Disaster studies Nepal earthquake Those who have long-term physical, mental intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction...

...Jake Rom Cadag Purpose This paper is a critique of Western modernity and the problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies. It criticizes metanarratives and grand theories of Western discourses to advance postmodern discourses in disaster studies. Design/methodology...

...Victor Marchezini Purpose The question of “why we are in disaster studies” can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive disaster science and finding ways to liberate from it. Design/methodology/approach...

...Maria Koreti Sang Yum; Roger C. Baars Purpose Research in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners, especially Indigenous communities, to nurture spaces where Indigenous voices...

... that animate those fields. Design/methodology/approach In this commentary, the author considers three such discussions, and draws out their relevance for disaster studies: the turn towards processual cartographies, political economy analysis of datafication and calls for theorising computing of and from...

...Ksenia Chmutina; Wesley Cheek; Jason von Meding Purpose In this position piece, the authors will reflect on some of their recent experiences with the peer-review process in disaster studies and show how debate can so easily be stifled. The authors write it as a plea for healthy academic...

... of extractive industries during the first months of the lockdown. Research limitations/implications The authors intersperse our account of the project with reflections on its limitations and, specifically, on how colonial formations shape the research. Decolonising disaster studies and disaster risk...

...Susie Goodall; Zainab Khalid; Monia Del Pinto Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of conversation among disaster studies researchers who may be positioned at times and to varying degrees as both insiders and outsiders in relation to the contexts in which they work. Three key...

... key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South. Design/methodology/approach Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and current...

... works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Disaster studies Resilience Fishing Tsunami Japan...

...Ksenia Chmutina; Neil Sadler; Jason von Meding; Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf Purpose Disaster studies has emerged as an international interdisciplinary body of knowledge; however, similar to other academic disciplines, its terminology is predominantly anglophone. This paper explores the implications...