Critical Disaster Studies is the flagship journal of the Disasters, Displacement, and Human Rights Program in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. CALL FOR PAPERS!

The theme for our next issue, recovery under duress focuses on the challenges and burdens of recovery from catastrophe. With the combined effects of climate-induced extreme events on the one hand, and increasingly aggressive forms of structural violence afflicting societies around the world (neoliberalization, repression and militarism to name three of the most obvious), inquiry into the problem of recovery offers a useful vantage point from which scholars may investigate enduring patterns that impinge upon the ability of populations to achieve some measure of individual and societal well-being. We welcome submissions that focuses on specific geographic sites or on specific disasters (broadly defined), but also those that engage the theoretical limitations of terms like recovery, resilience, growth and development. Engagement with critical scholarship on systemic forms of social inequality such as capitalism, colonialism, racism, hetero-patriarchy, environmental injustice, and state violence, is a requirement for consideration. In other words, submissions must seek to bridge the gap between a focus on disaster/catastrophe and scholarship that engages social inequality, and must not be limited to assessing impacts or offering recommendations.