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Eggleston, Ben; Miller, Daniel E.

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“…Decolonial studies (Escobar, 2002; Mignolo, 2007; Quijano and Ennis, 2000; Moraña et al , 2008), intercultural ethics (Schneider and Mall, 1996) and transdisciplinarity share a common goal in the sense of contributing to more just and equal, truly global, encounter of different forms of epistemology and knowledge. For this aim, emphasis is placed on the principles, rules and processes of encounter, instead of outcomes alone, more akin to utilitarianism as the most relevant form of consequentialist ethics (Eggleston and Miller, 2014). Transdisciplinary research (Bernstein, 2015; Jahn et al , 2012), as a cross-disciplinary attempt, involving policy-makers and the wider public for achieving a specific goal, is not uncommon to disaster risk studies (Cronin, 2008; Matsuura and Razak, 2019), however largely focused on the integration of science and technology within policy.…”

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Expanding the transdisciplinary conversation towards pluriversal distributive disaster recovery: development ethics and interculturality

Waldmueller

2021

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PurposeFrom a Latin American decolonial and transdisciplinary perspective, this article expands the increasingly relevant conversation about disaster ethics, not only in depth and scope but also both interdisciplinarily and interculturally. By reviewing key points of development ethics that are closely related but underexplored, it makes the case for focusing on disaster recovery as a relevant distributive phase for improving future prevention and mitigation, while remedying long-standing injustices.Design/methodology/approachTo do so, against the backdrop of recently emerging postcolonial, decolonial and structural approaches to disaster and vulnerability studies, the article presents a theoretical conversation between decolonial studies, development ethics, intercultural practice and philosophy, and disaster ethics beyond utilitarian approaches.FindingsSo far, development and disaster ethics remain worlds apart, despite their relevant convergence around the key notion of “recovery” and its underlying normative determination. This article identifies that prevailing utilitarian ethics in emergency response, in addition to their problematic universalization, have prevented further engagement with deontological and process-based principles, including a nuanced distributive sensitivity. As a result of such cross-fertilization, methodological individualism in an intercultural encounter is suggested, as well as continued engagement with pluriversal deliberation about key ethical values and notions regarding disaster risk and response.Originality/valueCalling for distributive bottom-up engagement beyond professional and academic boundaries, this article presents a new direction for decolonising disaster ethics, so far unexplored, seeking to bridge the value gap between development and disaster efforts, planning and prevention.

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Expanding the transdisciplinary conversation towards pluriversal distributive disaster recovery: development ethics and interculturality

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2021

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Expanding the transdisciplinary conversation towards pluriversal distributive disaster recovery: development ethics and interculturality

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