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Looking forward: Disasters at 40
- Source :
- Disasters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- This paper reflects on contemporary studies of and responses to disasters, highlighting the importance of historical, spatial, and intersectional modes of analysis, and draws on the author's ongoing research on Southern‐led and local community responses to displacement in the Middle East. Acknowledging the plurality of ‘international communities of response’, it begins by critiquing the depiction of selected responses to disasters as ‘positive’ ‘paradigm shifts’, including in reference to the ‘localisation of aid, and the United Nations’ Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan for Syria. Next it turns to three key themes that are central to disasters studies: migration; forced displacement; and Southern‐led responses to disasters. Among other things, the paper argues that exploring the principles and modalities of South–South cooperation, rather than promoting the incorporation of Southern actors into the ‘international humanitarian system’ via the localisation agenda, presents a critical opportunity for studies of and responses to disasters.
- Subjects :
- Paper
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Refugee
0211 other engineering and technologies
overlapping displacement
02 engineering and technology
migration
01 natural sciences
Disasters
interdisciplinarity
localisation of aid
long‐term responses to disasters
Political science
11. Sustainability
Humans
Resilience (network)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Intersectionality
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Middle East
Research
refugee‐led response
General Social Sciences
Local community
Forced migration
Paradigm shift
Political economy
Papers
South–South cooperation
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
intersectionality
Forecasting
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14677717 and 03613666
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e6540b96a9c8c3980a0b099a8d207808