International Social Work, Community Science, and Disaster Justice
摘要
Disasters in South Asia are escalating in intensity, frequency, and destructiveness, resulting in the loss of lives and livelihoods. We draw from the ongoing Disaster Resilience Futures project in India and Nepal, supported by Canada’s New Frontiers Research Fund (NFRF). Using Community Science approaches and the co-production of resilience knowledge and practices, this chapter unpacks the notion of disaster resilience and justice, taking the Nepalese 2015 earthquakes and recurrent coastal cyclone disasters in Andhra Pradesh, India, as case studies. This chapter underscores the potential for nurturing disaster-resilient communities through co-produced Community Science that addresses the complex power hierarchies in knowledge production and international social work practice. The international collaborative projects in Nepal and India show initial evidence of how the co-production of disaster resilience stories is produced and are intended to inspire social work professionals, colleagues, and peers working in the disaster sector in South Asia and beyond, highlighting their integral role in the co-produced disaster-resilient futures.