Rethinking and Relearning Disaster Adaptations from and within Indigenous Land-Based Perspectives

About Arifatul KibriaBarsha KairyMargot HurlbertRajmoni SinghaRanjan DattaSomashree Chatterjee

Ranjan Datta is Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies Department of Humanities Mount Royal University Calgary. Alberta Canada. Dr. Datta's current research interests include advocating for Indigenous Land-rights Indigenous community disaster research community resiliency on climate change community-based participatory action research decolonization and Indigenous reconciliation. Dr. Datta published 70 peer-reviewed publications four books and four edited books on responsibilities on decolonization cross-cultural perspectives on reconciliation Indigenous water Indigenous climate change anti-racist perspectives on climate change and environmental sustainability issues. Dr. Datta has developed a strong understanding of decolonial and Indigenist research frameworks in his 17 years conducting research with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Canada USA Africa Europe and South Asia. He is strongly committed to and passionate about Indigenous environmental sustainability reconciliation environmental management Indigenous land rights anti-racist theory and practice decolonization social and environmental justice community gardens and cross-cultural research methodology and methods.Margot Hurlbert is a Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Climate Change Energy and Sustainability Policy of the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy University of Regina. She explores the gap between what is needed to address climate change and current policy and behaviour. Margots scholarship concerns climate change adaptation and mitigation energy Indigenous peoples water droughts floods water governance and sustainability. Margot has authored IPCC AR6 and Special Reports and was a member of Future Earths Earth Commission Working Group on Transformations (2019-2022). She is an expert panel member on Adaptation for the Canadian Climate Institute and an Expert with the Canadian Climate Law Initiative.Arifatul Kibria is a feminist scholar who actively supports and promotes the rights and interests of marginalized and disadvantaged communities. She aims to amplify the voices of Indigenous and minority communities through an educational framework that incorporates decolonial and Indigenist perspectives. She holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at American International University-Bangladesh. She has a diverse range of academic interests which encompass sociological theories gender studies governance social change and mobility migration and climate change. In 2002 and 2001 respectively she obtained her Master of Social Sciences (MSS) and Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) degrees in sociology from the University of Dhaka. In 2011 she earned her PhD in social structure stratification and inequality from the Department of Sociology at Renmin University of China.Rajmoni Singha is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at North South University Bangladesh. Dr. Singha earned his PhD in Anthropological research focusing on Manipuri weavers and their challenges in Bangladesh at Charles Darwin University in Australia and Masters degree in Master of Development Practice (MDP) from James Cook University Australia. He has Singhas broad research areas are anthropological research contemporary development challenges qualitative research methods in social sciences health and environment climate change and health indigenous knowledge and environmental management and ethnicity and identity studies.Barsha Kairy is a Master's Student at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy University of Regina. She holds a Bachelors and Masters in Education from the University of Dhaka and has worked with various organizations. She has a passion for Social Science and has pursued a second Master's in Development Studies. She currently works in the development sector focusing on research on Indigenous communities gender disaster resilience climate change gender and public policy. Her goal is to dedicate herself to academia for better service.Somashree Chatterjee is a Master's Student at the Natural Resource Institute (NRI) at the University of Manitoba Canada. Her research focuses on community empowerment through addressing climate change water and sanitation agriculture etc. She is passionate about working with Indigenous and minority communities as she believes in changing the community through her work. She works for Water.org as a Program Manager providing household-level solutions for accessing water and sanitation especially in climate-vulnerable areas. She is interested in exploring the gender aspect of climate change water resource management Indigenous land-based studies etc. She completed her masters degree in environmental economics as a second topper from the University of Dhaka in 2015.