I enclose below (and as a separate Word attachment) a late call for papers.
'Disaster and Development' is an area of critical interest now when El
Salvador and India - as just the two most topical examples - will be looking
to rebuild and reconstruct. Without bringing together disaster AND
development knowledge and initiatives, the danger is that they (as so many
others have, so often before) will rebuild vulnerability to future disasters
into the very building structures. However, what in many ways is more
dangerous, is the creation and reinforcing of, largely unseen, inequitable
social structures which contribute to (as Ken Hewitt has formulated it) the
'social geography of harm'.

If you would like to contribute a paper on this theme, please contact me.

Maureen



SUPPLEMENTARY CALL FOR PAPERS OF THE “DISASTER AND SOCIAL CRISIS RESEARCH
NETWORK” FOR THE 5TH EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE – VISIONS
AND DIVISIONS. HELSINKI, FINLAND, 28 August - 1 September 2001.
(http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/helsinki.htm)

“Session VI.  Disaster and Development:  Bringing Together Divided
Disciplines, Theory and Practice”

Dear colleagues,


The Disaster and Social Crisis Research Network has circulated a call of
papers for five sessions since last June 2000. In the meantime, some
colleagues have expressed an interest in organizing a sixth session on
“Disaster and Development:  Bringing Together Divided Disciplines, Theory
and Practice”.  The content and aims of  the sixth session are as follows:

Disaster and development are separate traditions within both professional
practice and academic disciplines. Workers and researchers only rarely
transfer knowledge between them and yet each group could contribute much to
the others.

The aim of this session is to seek to break down this division and broaden
our understanding of what hazard and disaster management should encompass in
order to function effectively and sustainably in both the developed North
and the developing South. ‘Development’ here includes the academic
discipline of development studies and the practice of development
initiatives and projects – usually undertaken in and on developing
countries; and the incorporation of long-term socio-economic development
initiatives into disaster management within a developed world context. In
doing this we  intend to explore (a) the contribution that  development
studies and practice which  focus on the developing world can make  to
disaster management in a developed world context (b) the possible benefits
from reversing the dominant direction of information flow from the North to
the South and (c) examples of best practice in sustainable disaster
management that can be transferable across social and spatial boundaries.

Colleagues interested in participating in the new session are urged to send
electronically an abstract of not more than 250 words to
[log in to unmask] with a copy to N. Petropoulos ([log in to unmask]) , if
possible, by January 31, 2001.  Prospective participants are also required
to  submit their abstract to the Conference Secretariat  using the  the
official abstract form (www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ ).



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Dr Maureen Fordham
Geography Department, Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge
CB1 1PT, UK. Tel: 01223 363271 extension 2177. Email:
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Web: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography
Disaster Studies Project: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/dsp
Gender and Disaster Network: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/gdn
Disaster & Social Crisis Research Network: www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/d&scrn
Radix - Radical Interpretations of Disaster:
www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/radix