By Hyeonbin Park, PhD Researcher, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy (STP), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
This presentation engages in so-called multispecies turn in disaster studies. This presentation talks about the significance of more-than-humans in risk perception regarding forest-related disasters and the slow disaster of climate change. Based on the ethnographic studies on post-fire forest restoration, endangered animal species, and withering pine trees in South Korea, this presentation argues that nonhumans’ temporalities and spatialities question anthropocentric risk perception and consequential intervention.
Hyeonbin Park (he/him) is a PhD student at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His research fields are on the intersection between science and technology studies (STS), environmental history, and disaster studies. Park is exploring how humans and nonhumans go through disasters in the context of forest fires and climate change.