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Effective Disaster Care as a Critique of Technocratic Birth Many chapters in this book and others heavily critique what Davis-Floyd (2001, 2003) has long called "the technocratic model of birth." Following Ivry et al.'s (2019) suggestion that disasters may provide a differing and powerful perspective for such critiques, this chapter examines effective care in the immediate aftermaths of disasters that render the technocratic model, with its reliance on high technologies, inapplicable in the absence of those technologies. Midwife Robin Lim (2021) brings into geopolitical focus the issues this chapter is designed to address: Climate change, geological events and socio-political struggles are contributing to disasters devastating communities worldwide. Pandemics, superstorms, ocean surges, tsunamis, rising tides, landslides, floods, blizzards, droughts, bitterly cold and scorching hot weather, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and wars fought over resources, territories, food security, dogma, and precious water, all destabilize our planet Earth. When the hospitals are reduced

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