Journal of Disaster Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1

The roundtable that opens issue one (1) introduces the nine founding editorial collective members and the ideas animating the creation of this new forum for disaster research. Disaster pose innumerable challenges to analysis: they are hard to pin down in space and time - sometimes punctuated and local, often processual and widespread, commonly all of these at once.

Journal of Disaster Studies is an open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes the work of disaster researchers around the world. The journal foregrounds historically and theoretically framed analyses of both slow and abrupt disaster, questioning how disasters have been designated, conceptualized, and politicized. The journal seeks to define and foster disaster justice as a key concern and theme. The aim of the journal is to advance interpretive theory, methods, and empirical research that supports disaster prevention and response.