Tsunamis. Hurricanes. Earthquakes.
Stories about disasters typically make these tragedies really feel like issues that occur in far-off locations to far-off folks. The tales faux there’s a simple plot: After a catastrophe, help is shipped, issues get mounted after which the information protection strikes on. It’s more durable to inform the story of how the affected neighborhood will change, what introduced catastrophe to its doorstep within the first place and the teachings we will study.
“Not Now, But Soon,” a brand new podcast miniseries from ASU Media Enterprise, challenges the tales we frequently inform about disasters — and even what counts as a catastrophe. Rather than dangerous luck or happenstance, disasters are deeply rooted within the methods society is constructed. A hurricane could be a disaster or just a passing storm, relying on how properties are constructed, the resilience of {the electrical} grid, the sturdiness of levees and the extent of neighborhood cohesion. Understanding disasters can assist us perceive society’s priorities and values, illuminating our blind spots and assumptions.
Hosted by Malka Older — a speculative fiction writer, humanitarian help employee, catastrophe researcher and senior international futures scientist at ASU — the five-part collection explores how we will enhance catastrophe response. It additionally asks how storytelling and speculative fiction can assist us create a imaginative and prescient for higher futures and start to work towards them.
The podcast miniseries is a part of the bigger Future Tense Fiction venture, a collaboration between Issues in Science and Technology and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination that makes use of speculative fiction to discover how science and know-how will form our future. Each month, the venture publishes a brief story and a response essay from an knowledgeable who connects the fictional narrative to real-world coverage debates. The venture has been publishing quick fiction since 2017.
Featured podcast friends embody:
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Steven Gonzalez, a fiction writer and anthropologist who uncovers the neglected prices to our web infrastructure.
- Thin Lei Win, a journalist who asks if our meals techniques are a catastrophe.
- Julisa Tambunan, deputy government director of Equal Measures 2030 who explores gender and information fairness.
- Nasir Andisha, everlasting consultant of Afghanistan to the United Nations, who finds a method to think about a greater future for his nation after shedding it. Premieres Oct. 28.
- Brigitte van der Sande, an artwork historian who examines the tales we inform about warfare and violence. Premieres Nov. 11.
The miniseries is a part of Issues in Science and Technology’s podcast “The Ongoing Transformation.” Follow the miniseries by subscribing to “The Ongoing Transformation” wherever you get your podcasts. You can even sustain with “Not Now, But Soon” on the miniseries’ website.