S7E4 - The Invention of Disaster

S7E4 - The Invention of Disaster

Today we are joined by our friend and sometimes co-host JC Gaillard to discuss his recently published book, The Invention of Disaster!In it he argues that there isn’t such a thing as a disaster because our current understanding of disasters is a subjective interpretation of suffering, harm and damage that allows those in power to draw a line between what is acceptable and what is not. We discuss what he calls ‘epistemological nonsense’ and it gets very philosophical as we get into critical-Left theory - Foucault to Latour, to Derrida, to Spivak, Said and Gramsci!! Join us :)

Further information:

The Invention of Disaster

Our guests:

JC Gaillard (@jcgaillard_uoa)

Season 7 note:

As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading:

1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world”

2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism”

3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation”

4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”

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