[special issue] Governance and Place in Philippine Disaster Management

Glad and relieved this special issue is finally out in the world, 3 years after our Manila conference on Governing Complex Disasters in Southeast Asia.

That we are increasingly facing complex disasters has become a truism in disaster management. In this special issue for AsiaPacific Viewpoint, we build on earlier studies of disaster complexity by looking at the interaction of hazards, specifically Super Typhoon Odette (Rai) and Covid-19, and their governace implications for states, NGOs, and small islands.

Crucially, we conceptualize complexity beyond a hazard-centric approach to examine the cultural specificities of governing place that arise from:

- the historical roots of disaster management in (colonial) counterinsurgency and military psychological operations and their implications for the present-day potential of DRRM to reproduce state violence

- the earthbound, embodied, and technologically mediated decision-making processes that are activated when civil society organizations and community volunteers are suddenly forced to step up to fill in typhoon response gaps within the government at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

- the hard edges of local realities within a small island, where awareness, collectivism, and political pressure are significant predictors of resilience for typhoons - but not for pandemics

Colletively, the articles in this issue shed light on how disaster governance can be made more just, reponsive, and contextually relevant.

Many thanks to co-editors Will Smith Maria Carinnes Alejandria Rob Grace, co-author Mona Nasser, and contributors Kenneth Cardenas and Moises Garcia with Rosario Cobar-Garcia, Arlen Ancheta and Raquel Layco.

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Editorial

https://lnkd.in/gh_qDVfm

The Definition and Control of Land and Populations in the Crisis Century: Counterinsurgency, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Territorialization in the Philippines (Cardenas)

https://lnkd.in/gmYGH8hj

NGO Decision Making During Typhoon Response: Towards a Relational Approach (Cajilig & Nasser)

https://lnkd.in/guNjfu5M

Governing Complex Disasters in Siquijor Island, Philippines: Super Typhoon Rai and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Climate Change (Garcia et al)

https://lnkd.in/gACZDmVf