Today we were so happy to sit down with Professor Lucy Easthope, author of "When the Dust Settles" and the UK’s leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been a government advisor on the 2004 Boxing day tsunami, 7/7 bombings in London, Grenfell fire, and the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss disaster language, care for victims and practitioners, and how to work within an often dehumanising response system. Check it out! 

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When the Dust Settles

Our guests:

Lucy Easthope (@LucyGoBag)

Season 7 note:

As you may have noticed, we are recording this season as a series of livestreams. You can see the recordings on our Youtube channel. Also, please join us in reading:

1. Malcom Ferdinand (2019) “Decolonial Ecology. Thinking from the Caribbean world”

2. Max Liboiron (2021) “Pollution is colonialism”

3. Paolo Freire (2015) “Pedagogy of Indignation”

4. Silvia Federici (2021) “Patriarchy of the wage”

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