Call for papers in the new disaster dynamics section on ‘The political dynamics of disaster and human rights implications’.

Abstract Deadline for this cohort: September 15, 2026

See information below and in the attached poster, and submit a max 500 word abstract.

Disaster Dynamics is part of Oxford Intersections, a new concept in interdisciplinary academic publishing from Oxford University Press (OUP) which brings together academics and global experts investigating urgent and challenging subjects in our world today. Our section aims to cast a critical lens on the politics of disasters and interrogate their too-often neglected human rights implications. In doing so, we emphasize the multidirectional relationship between disasters and politics: disasters reflect political conditions and also can open ‘windows of opportunity’, reshape governance, and generate new forms of contestation and cooperation.

We particularly encourage contributions that examine how disasters shape and are shaped by electoral politics, governance regimes, and political agenda setting, as well as those reflecting the diverse approaches taken to reduce disaster risks amid political constraints including through disaster diplomacy and environmental peacebuilding. We are furthermore interested in contributions that engage disaster dynamics in relation to different types of systems and populations (e.g. displaced people), spaces and spatialities, and time and temporalities – dynamics that are particularly visible in contexts of polycrises where disasters intersect with conflict, displacement, and other governance breakdowns. 

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