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Solidarity in disaster scholarship

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posted on 2025-04-11, 15:16 authored by Ksenia ChmutinaKsenia Chmutina, Jason von Meding, Darien Alexander Williams, Jacob Remes, Wesley Cheek, Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete

Disaster scholarship purportedly promotes disaster risk reduction and resist disaster risk creation, thus deeply engaging with transboundary existential risks, justice, and political power. Disaster scholarship is thus a commitment to humanity, and for it to become truly equitable and just, solidarity must lie at its heart.

In this paper we connect solidarity with knowledge production, and the implications of disaster scholarship as well as the relationships on which it is built. We offer a critique of the kind of research produced by neoliberal academic institutions and provocations for resistance through solidarity. We call on disaster scholars to use these prompts to reflect on their practice, research ethics and their commitment to other human beings, inside and outside of the academy.

Solidarity can help scholars avoid the saviourism, self-congratulation, and paternalism that are common in academia. Solidarity in disaster scholarship is a worthy endeavour precisely because it brings a concrete alternative vision of what resisting disaster risk creation through knowledge production could be, revealing in the process what needs to bend and what needs to break in order to make room for scholarship that is not yet here.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Disasters

Volume

49

Issue

1

Publisher

Wiley

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© The Author(s)

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access article published by Wiley under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2024-08-12

Publication date

2024-09-17

Copyright date

2024

ISSN

0361-3666

eISSN

1467-7717

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Ksenia Chmutina. Deposit date: 13 August 2024

Article number

e12657

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