After disaster strikes and other stories: The political construction of Typhoon Pablo in insurgency affected communities in Mindanao

亚洲海啸（斯里兰卡和印度尼西亚）、印度河洪水（巴基斯坦）和非洲之角持续干旱等灾害越来越多地发生在受暴力和冲突影响的中低收入国家部分地区。然而，令人惊讶的是，人们对生活在冲突中的人们在灾难发生后与国家、叛乱团体或军队互动的方式以及他们在“日常”生活中的经历知之甚少。本研究试图解决的问题是如何在当地的气候灾害建设的社区生活在冲突中的中低收入国家？通过这样做，本项目将有助于了解在灾后恢复和重建方面进行发展干预的复杂政治空间。该项目完全符合PaCCS和GCRF的框架，将解决冲突和灾害研究中的一个实际差距。其研究结果将对旨在改善中低收入国家社区福利的发展政策的设计产生重大影响。该研究项目在其感兴趣研究的政治空间-灾害与冲突的交叉点-中具有独特性和创新性。它所遵循的方法是创新和冒险的，将社会科学的学术和方法与艺术和人文方法结合在一起。此外，在与精通视觉方法的非学术合作伙伴的合作中，这项研究使我能够作为一名早期职业学者建立能力，有兴趣开发跨学科的方法来研究中低收入国家的灾难和冲突空间。在棉兰老岛的苏里高德尔苏尔省和曼古达瑙省，该项目将在政治上建造2012年摧毁菲律宾南部的台风巴勃罗。该地区一直面临着共产主义新人民军（NPA）和伊斯兰主义者，摩罗伊斯兰解放阵线（MILF）和国家之间的长期武装叛乱。虽然政治地理学经常将灾难视为国家“软弱”的表现，这种表现破坏了国家与公民之间的社会契约，使叛乱团体能够占领这一空间，但我以前的研究表明这种叙述过于简单化。它没有考虑到在后殖民世界中，国家与公民之间的关系是以复杂、随意和非正式的方式建立、发明和改造的。为了探索这种复杂性，我的民族志田野调查还将包括20个来自受台风巴勃罗影响的社区成员的数字故事，他们一直生活在一个活跃的叛乱中。我将与棉兰老岛达沃市的当地合作伙伴Swito Corp合作，他们经营着一家令人兴奋的初创公司，利用数字讲故事作为吸引当地社区参与的媒介，特别是在解决冲突和建设和平领域。此外，棉兰老岛的一个社区非政府组织-和平建设者社区联合会-将与基层网络合作开展这一项目。这将是第一个研究项目之一，探索在LMIC（如菲律宾）受冲突影响的地区进行灾难的当地建设。因此，这不仅是一项创新工作，而且提供了一个背景和社会相关的框架，通过这个框架可以了解灾害和冲突的交叉点，而且可以用来设计棉兰老岛和其他地区的政策干预措施。此外，该项目也将是第一个使用数字讲故事作为民族志数据收集方法的项目之一。因此，使受访者能够参与开发自己的数字故事板并推动自己的叙述。在这方面的指导框架将由英国的专业公司Limetools Ltd提供，该公司在利用媒体和数字讲故事进行政策工作方面经验丰富，从而提高菲律宾合作伙伴的能力。

Disasters, such as the Asian tsunami (Sri Lanka & Indonesia), the Indus Floods (Pakistan) and on-going droughts in the Horn of Africa, have increasingly taken place in parts of LMICs affected by violence and conflict. Yet, surprisingly, very little is known about the way in which people living amidst conflict interact with the state, with insurgent groups or the military in the aftermath of the disaster and how this is experienced in their 'everyday' lives. The question this research seeks to address is how are climatic disasters locally constructed in communities living with conflict in LMICs? In so doing, this project will help understand the complex political space where development interventions in disaster recovery and rehabilitation take place. Fitting perfectly within the framework of the PaCCS and the GCRF this project project will address a tangible gap in conflict and disaster research. It's findings will have a significant impact in the design of development policy aimed at improving welfare of communities living in LMICs.This research project is unique and innovative in the political space that it is interested in studying - the intersection of disasters with conflict. The approach it follows is innovative and risky, drawing together social science scholarship and methods with arts and humanities methods. Additionally in working with non-academic partners proficient in visual methods, this research allows me to build capacity as an early career scholar, interested in developing an interdisciplinary approach to studying the disaster and conflict space in LMICs.Based on physical and digital ethnographic research in two barangays (villages), in Surigao del Sur and in Manguindanao provinces, in Mindanao this project will politically construct Typhoon Pablo that devastated the southern Philippines in 2012. This region has been facing a protracted armed insurgency between the communist New People's Army (NPA) and the Islamist, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the state. Though political geography often discusses disasters as a manifestation of state "weakness" that fracture the social contracts between the states and their citizens, allowing insurgent groups to capture this space, my previous research shows such a narrative as being too simplistic. It fails to take into account the complex, haphazard and informal ways in which state-citizen relationships have been forged, invented and reinvented in the postcolonial world.To explore this complexity, my ethnographic fieldwork will also include twenty digital stories from community members who were affected by Typhoon Pablo and have been living amidst an active insurgency. I will be working with local partners Swito Corp based in Davao City Mindanao, who run an exciting start-up using digital storytelling as a medium of engaging local communities, particularly in areas of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Additionally a community NGO in Mindanao, PeaceBuilders Community Incorporated (PBCI), with grassroots networks will be collaborators on this project. This will be one of the first research project exploring local construction of a disaster in a conflict-affected region in an LMIC, such as the Philippines. It is therefore not only an innovative piece of work but in providing a contextual and socially relevant framework through which to understand the disaster and conflict intersection, but can be used to design policy interventions in Mindanao and beyond. Additionally, this project will also be one of the first to use digital storytelling as a method of ethnographic data collection. Thereby, enabling participation of respondents in developing their own digital storyboards and driving their own narrative. A guiding framework in this regard will be provided by the specialist company Limetools Ltd in the UK, experienced in using media and digital storytelling for policy work thereby improving capability of Filipino partners as well.