Stories From the Frontlines: Decolonising Social Contracts for Disasters

• Main Authors: Siddiqi, Ayesha, Canuday, Jose Jowel P
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: citizenship; disasters; insurgency; postcolonial; social contracts; Emergency and Disaster Management; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/104; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/disa.12308
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Disasters are framed as political moments when states are unable to provide security to their citizens, causing disruption and a possible ‘break’ in the state—citizen social contract. Evidence from the frontlines of insurgency and secessionist movements in southern Philippines suggests that social c...