Browsing by Author "Kelly, Sarah"

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    Figuring disasters, an experiment on thinking disruptions as methods
    (2019) Tironi, Manuel; Bacigalupe, Gonzalo; Knowles, Scott Gabriel; Dickinson, Simon; Gil, Magdalena; Kelly, Sarah; Ludwig, Jason; Moesch, Jarah; Molina, Francisco; Palma, Karla; Siddiqi, Ayesha; Waldmueller,Johannes
    In this report, we reflect on the 2-day thinkshop ‘Figuring disasters: methodological speculations in exorbitant worlds’ held in Valparaíso, Chile. The thinkshop aimed at discussing the possibility of inventing new genres for the figuration, representation and visualisation of distributed and processual geoclimatic disruptions. For this report, we assembled a choral essay in which each one of the participants selected one object of our visit to Messana—an informal settlement in the outskirts of Valparaíso that was severely damaged by the 2017 fires—and knit around, from and with it a reflection on the thinkshop and its questions. The report is thus fractionary. We do not look for wholes, perhaps as disasters themselves problematise linear narratives. We prefer to be attentive to what each one of us inherited from Messana and to stage that sensibility in a multiplicity, though adventures into what disasters as methods can and should be.
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    Interruptions: imagining an analytical otherwise for disaster studies in Latin America
    (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2021) Tironi Rodo, Manuel Eugenio; Campos Knothe, Katherine Veronica; Acuña Bravo, Valentina Moraima; Isola Sanchez, Enzo Antonio; Bonelli, Cristobal; Gonzalez Galvez, Marcelo Ignacio; Kelly, Sarah; Juzam, Leila; Molina, Francisco; Pereira Covarrubias, Andres; Rivas, Ricardo; Undurraga Rodriguez, Beltran Felipe; Valdivieso, Sofia
    Purpose Based on the research, the authors identify how four key concepts in disaster studies-agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability-are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South. Design/methodology/approach Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and current collaborations of authors with communities across Chile. Findings The findings suggest that agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability, as fundamental concepts for disaster risk reduction (DRR) theory and practice, need to allow for ambivalences, ironies, granularization and further materializations. The authors identify these characteristics as the conditions that emerge when doing disaster research from within the disaster itself, perhaps the critical condition of what is usually known as the South. Originality/value The authors contribute to a reflexive assessment of fundamental concepts for critical disaster studies. The authors offer research-based and empirically rich redefinitions of these concepts. The authors also offer a novel understanding of the political and epistemological conditions of the "South" as both a geography and a project.