Disasters, Duties and Dependencies: Malawian civil servants in disaster...

Wed Jan 15 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm UTC+00:00

International House, Loughborough University | Loughborough

Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies
Publisher/HostLoughborough Institute of Advanced Studies
Disasters, Duties and Dependencies: Malawian civil servants in disaster...
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IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Tanja D. Hendriks delivers a seminar on their research, followed by a lunch.
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IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Tanja D. Hendriks delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Disasters, Duties and Dependencies: Malawian civil servants in disaster relief interventions" -

Malawi is a donor-dependent country in southern Africa, at the forefront of experiencing the intensifying impacts of climate change. Its Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA) is responsible for the coordination of disaster governance and relief interventions, but profoundly reliant on donor-funding to do so. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai (2019), Cyclone Freddy (2023) and an El Niňo-induced drought (2024), I zoom in on different characteristics of disaster governance, to show how despite its lack of resources and actual capacity to deal with them, the state is central to relief interventions. Detailing how DODMA civil servants navigated the demands placed on them by colleagues, citizens, chiefs and (international) collaborators as they attempted to fulfill their duties, I suggest that these interventions throw the state itself into relief and render visible civil servants’ sense of duty as well as what it is up against.

Arrivals from 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.

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International House, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, United Kingdom

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