The Tout-Monde of disaster studies

This essay expands the postcolonial agenda for future disaster studies that we suggested in the conclusion of the book . It provides some refined perspectives on how to capture the diversity and complexity of the world that we draw from the philosophy of Martinican poet and novelist Edouard Glissant...

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Published in:Jamba 2023, Vol.15 (1), p.1385-1385
Main Author: Gaillard, J C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dialectics
Disaster studies
Disasters
edouard glissant
Epistemology
Eurocentrism
Glissant, Edouard
Hegemony
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Imperialism
Modernity
Nativism
Ontology
Philosophy
pluralism
postcolonial studies
Postcolonialism
relation
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Society
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Summary:This essay expands the postcolonial agenda for future disaster studies that we suggested in the conclusion of the book . It provides some refined perspectives on how to capture the diversity and complexity of the world that we draw from the philosophy of Martinican poet and novelist Edouard Glissant. Glissant's philosophy of creolisation and relation offers critical pathways towards pluralistic approaches to understanding what we call disaster in a world that is marked by hybridity and relationships rather than essentialism and nativism. A , in Glissant's terms, that is the combined additions of different and hybrid interpretations of disaster. Exploring the of disaster studies will constitute a radical and forward-looking postcolonial agenda; radical in the sense that it will challenge many of our scholarly assumptions, popular discourses as well as common-sense policies and practices.
ISSN:2072-845X
1996-1421
1996-1421
DOI:10.4102/jamba.v15i1.1385