Small island developing states (or SIDS) are exposed to a large number of natural hazards and many characteristics of small island developing states make them particularly vulnerable to the impacts ...of natural hazards. In spite of this acknowledged vulnerability, there are relatively few studies which focus on the impacts of natural hazards in these countries. This paper presents a review of our current state of knowledge of impacts in small island developing states and highlights a number of research needs. Central to these is the need to integrate natural hazards research within a sustainable development context and the need to exploit existing procedures such as government coordinated disaster impact assessments to generate a detailed understanding of natural hazards impacts.
The Creatures Collective: Manifestings Hernández, KJ; Rubis, June M; Theriault, Noah ...
Environment and planning. E, Nature and space (Print),
09/2021, Volume:
4, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This piece explores the work and entanglements of our research collective, formed in 2016. First, we collectively articulate the ethos and the motivations that inform the ways in which we labor to ...engage with complex, plural, multi-vocal experiences of extinction, “the Anthropocene,” and earth violence as they are felt and known across the diverse communities we represent. Then, drawing on more than three years of work across relations that tie us to Australia, Canada, Malaysian Borneo, the Philippines, and the United States of America, we share reflections on some of the vital relationships, methods, and “creatures” that animate our collaboration. This collection of “manifestings” aims to show how we work, very consciously, to foster more-than-human capacities for confronting the multi-scalar, cross-cosmological forms of violence that drive extinction and other forms of ecological harm in the world today.
“Songspirals are a university for us, they are a map of understandings” (Gay’wu Group of Women, 2019, p. 33).
This paper is authored by Bawaka Country, acknowledging Country’s ability to teach and ...share. Country is homeland and place. Country is everything and the relationships that bring everything to life. Country is knowledge. This paper is shaped and enabled by songspirals. Songspirals are sung and cried by Yolŋu people in north east Arnhem Land, Australia, to awaken Country, to make and remake the life-giving connections between people and place. The Goŋ-gurtha songspiral leads this paper, showing us how a Yolŋu Country-led pedagogy centres Country’s active agency by learning through, with, and as Country. This pedagogy shares with us the ongoing connections within and between generations to ensure that knowledge remains strong and that sharing is done the right way, according to Yolŋu Rom, Law/Lore. This learning is predicated on relationality and responsibility. It is a more-than-human learning in which human knowing is decentred and Country is knowledgeable. It is a learning which recognises and respects its limits and it is a learning in which the ongoing sovereignty of Yolŋu people is front and centre.
There is increasing interest within geography around the composition and interdependence of human and environmental dynamics and relational onto-epistemologies. Such interest prompts us to consider ...questions around respect, power and collaboration, and how we might enact relations across sometimes vast and incommensurable differences as academics and as/with community members. In this paper, we document six protocols which emerged within the Not Lone Wolf network to enable this careful work: Emplacement, Listening, Weaving, Discomfort, Grieving, and Resting. These protocols are material practices that are mindful of the diversity of stakes, opinions and positionalities we hold, and which enable us to navigate through our relations. This paper argues for the importance of attending to such protocols which can shape the doing(s) of relational geographies. It offers possible orientations for geographers and social scientists to experiment with while doing relational geographies.
•Geographers want to work relationally to push against individualism and neo-liberal work.•This requires reorientating collective methods for collaboration.•Six protocols identified to engage in collective practice, with reference to Indigenous philosophies.•Must focus on cultivating relationships to place.
As Vietnam has moved into the same economic orbit as its Southeast Asian neighbours it has been exposed to globalizing forces which bring about social, economic and political change - one of a ...transitional economy. One of the Vietnamese state's main dilemmas during its transition from a command to a socialist market economy has been how to manage the emergence of market forces within an existing Marxist ideology. The social, economic and political context in which burgeoning new sectors and industries, such as international tourism, are gaining a foothold is complex and often contradictory. The international tourism industry provides a milieu demonstrating the state's response to new cultural industries and the strategy employed to regulate such development. The study of tourism development in Vietnam also provides an opportunity to rectify the under-theorization of social and cultural processes within the discipline of geography. This paper examines the impact of government regulation and its pro-State Owned Enterprise policy on the development of private small-scale tour operators in Vietnam. It uses a case study of the development of traveller cafés in backpacker areas of Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to argue that traveller cafés have been subject to erratic responses by government authorities and that attempts by the state to regulate the private tour operator sector are undermined by personalized social networks which are present at all levels. As a result of personal values, interests and the bureaucrat's ability to exercise discretion in the implementation of policy, the institutional management of tourism is not absolute.
The benefits of indigenous knowledge within disaster risk reduction are gradually being acknowledged and identified. However, despite this acknowledgement there continues to be a gap in reaching the ...right people with the correct strategies for disaster risk reduction.
This paper identifies the need for a specific framework identifying how indigenous and western knowledge may be combined to mitigate against the intrinsic effects of environmental processes and therefore reduce the vulnerability of rural indigenous communities in small island developing states (SIDS) to environmental hazards. This involves a review of the impacts of environmental processes and their intrinsic effects upon rural indigenous communities in SIDS and how indigenous knowledge has contributed to their coping capacity. The paper concludes that the vulnerability of indigenous communities in SIDS to environmental hazards can only be addressed through the utilisation of both indigenous and Western knowledge in a culturally compatible and sustainable manner.
This paper draws on the collaborative experiences of three female academics and three generations of Yolŋu women from an Aboriginal family from Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land to contribute to debates ...in development around participation, power and justice. Through a reflection on the process of collaboratively co-authoring two books and associated outputs, the paper discusses the way the collaboration is guided by collective priorities that are held as paramount: trust, reciprocity, relationships and sharing goals. The paper draws particular attention to the essential role that families and non-human agents play in shaping these priorities. The relational ontology which underlies this collaboration is inspired by a Yolŋu ontology of connection that requires us to acknowledge ourselves as connected to each other, to other people and to other things. Guided by this Indigenous ontological framework, we reframe the concept of collaboration and of development as inherently and always relational.
