Disaster Justice in Philippine Contexts: Revisiting Frameworks and Interrogating Practices

Abstract

This special issue engages with the notion of disaster justice to foreground the political in the analyses of socio-environmental crises and interrogates its entanglements with economic, cultural, material, spatial, and ecological forces. The research articles and reflective essays in this collection move beyond the usual disaster-related buzzwords and interrogate three intersecting themes: grassroots agency and contestation amid uncertainty, democratic processes in post-disaster contexts, and the materiality of (in)justice and hope. The findings and insights offer conceptual provocations and urge scholars to “deepen the pot” of research on disaster justice praxis in the Philippines.

KEYWORDS: DISASTER JUSTICE • MATERIALITY OF HOPE • HOUSING • RESETTLEMENT • POSITIONALITY