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Solidarity in disaster scholarship.

Ksenia Chmutina¹, Jason von Meding², Darien Alexander Williams³

¹School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

|September 17, 2024

Summary

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Disaster scholarship should prioritize solidarity to ensure equitable disaster risk reduction. This approach fosters ethical knowledge production and resists harmful academic practices, promoting a just future.

Keywords:

disaster scholarship justice knowledge production solidarity

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Disaster studies
Social sciences
Risk management

Background:

Disaster scholarship aims to reduce and resist disaster risk, addressing existential threats, justice, and power dynamics.
Equitable and just disaster scholarship necessitates solidarity as a core principle.
Existing academic structures, particularly neoliberal institutions, influence research practices and outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

To connect the concept of solidarity with knowledge production within disaster scholarship.
To critique research practices prevalent in neoliberal academic institutions.
To offer provocations for resistance through solidarity in disaster research.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis of solidarity in relation to knowledge production.
Critique of neoliberal academic institutions' impact on disaster scholarship.
Reflection on research ethics and scholarly commitments.

Main Results:

Solidarity is crucial for equitable and just disaster scholarship.
Neoliberal academic structures can foster problematic practices like saviourism and paternalism.
Disaster scholarship, when grounded in solidarity, offers an alternative vision for resisting disaster risk creation.

Conclusions:

Disaster scholars must reflect on their practices and ethical commitments.
Solidarity provides a framework to resist saviourism and paternalism in academia.
Integrating solidarity into disaster scholarship is essential for effective, equitable risk reduction and knowledge production.