S1E10 - Root Causes Part 1

Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast

English - August 05, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Previous Episode: S1E9 - "Radical" Disaster Studies?

Next Episode: S1E11 - Root Causes Part 2

Today we are delighted to be bringing you the first part of a conversation about "root causes" with Anthony Oliver-Smith. Tony is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and has been a great inspiration to both of us.

In this first part (of two) we discuss what root causes are and why it is so important to look beneath the symptoms, when we analyze disaster impacts. Tony gives us some wonderful examples from his expansive career that illustrate how disaster are anything but natural.

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Further information:

Tony's website links to much of his collection of work

Anthropology and the Political Ecology of Disasters

Our guests:

Anthony Oliver-Smith

Music this week from "Lioness" by Valkyrie