Andreas Malm
Associate professor
The Dialectics of Disaster: Considerations on Hazards and Vulnerability in the Age of Climate Breakdown, with a Brief Case Study of Khuzestan
Author
Summary, in English
In a historical moment inundated by disasters, understanding and conceptualising the
phenomenon is a matter of some importance. No framework for doing so has been more productive than that developed by Wisner and his colleagues. But their so-called ‘Progression of Vulnerability’ (pressure and release [PAR] model) framework was conceived before the onset of the climate crisis. And that crisis, as the saying goes, changes everything. What follows is an immanent critique of the framework, with an eye towards shifting some of its parameters in order to account for the process of climate breakdown now multiplying disasters across the globe.
phenomenon is a matter of some importance. No framework for doing so has been more productive than that developed by Wisner and his colleagues. But their so-called ‘Progression of Vulnerability’ (pressure and release [PAR] model) framework was conceived before the onset of the climate crisis. And that crisis, as the saying goes, changes everything. What follows is an immanent critique of the framework, with an eye towards shifting some of its parameters in order to account for the process of climate breakdown now multiplying disasters across the globe.
Department/s
- Human Ecology
Publishing year
2023
Language
English
Publication/Series
Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
Volume
15
Issue
1
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
AOSIS
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2072-845X