...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...

...” can actually be a mechanism for continuing the status quo, and how persistent colonizing institutions and systems can be in reproducing themselves. Findings The authors argue the liberation of disaster studies as a process of challenging the doctrines and paradigms that have been created and given...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Neoliberal democracy Anti-Capitalism Vulnerability Theory Liberation Our premise for this claim is that vulnerability is a shared basic condition as well as a condition of potential (Gilson, 2011); it is the condition that allows us...