by kultur.work | Dec 20, 2017 | News and Comment
“It is much easier for us to imagine the end of the world than a small change in the political system”, Slavoj Zizek famously said. The same is true for altering the earth climate system according to a recent report by the Canadian ETC-Group, BiofuelWatch and...
by kultur.work | Nov 24, 2017 | News and Comment
As environmental crises become ever more severe, voices are reappearing that call for authoritarian solutions: Democracy, so the argument goes, has proven to be too slow to respond to urgent threats, and so a stronger, authoritarian hand is needed to push through the...
by kultur.work | Jun 25, 2017
“Climate Just is an information tool designed to help with the delivery of equitable responses to climate change at the local level. Its main focus is to assist the development of socially just responses to the impacts of extreme events, such as flooding and...
by kultur.work | Oct 5, 2016 | News and Comment
The acute storms in the UK during the winter of 2013/14 and 2015/16 have revealed a problem that is now understood to be chronic: with climate change materialising more forcefully, severe flooding will become part of life for many communities across the UK....
by kultur.work | Apr 13, 2016 | News and Comment
In this provocation, Prof Lori Peek, co-director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University, draws on her work following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 where she interviewed disaster-affected children and youth across the United States. She...
by John Lotherington | Apr 6, 2016
John Lotherington reflects on the ongoing debate about the impact of the community-led flood defences in Pickering after the town was spared the flooding that hit large parts of northern England in late-2015. . . . As significant parts of northern England went under...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 4, 2016
Bronwyn Hayward argues that despite the New Zealand Government’s attempts to limit democracy after the 2010-2012 earthquakes – by breaching the Constitution and excluding local voices in decision-making – innovative citizen actions showed alternative, more...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 1, 2016
Akiko Nanami argues that after the Fukushima tragedy in 2011, many women defied cultural expectations to protect their children, creating a women’s collective movement through social media, the internet, workshops and petitions. However, “once again their...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 1, 2016
Lori Peek draws on her work following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 where she interviewed disaster-affected children and youth across the United States. She found: “that by helping others, children and youth are able to contribute to their own recovery, as well as...
by Andrea Westall | Apr 1, 2016
Marion Walker draws on research into the 2013/2014 UK floods to argue that “by understanding their perspectives and capacities” children and young people “could inform more effective policy, enhance resilience and reduce the impact of future...
