Disaster preparedness capacity development: A scenario-based system for social vulnerability reduction. By Kati Orru, Sten Hansson, Kristi Nero, Salvatore Marchese. While capacity development in the field of disaster risk management should be evidence-based, institutional capacity building is rarely rooted in a thorough vulnerability analysis. This study highlights gaps in all-hazards disaster preparedness approaches and examines how disaster preparedness planning can systematically draw upon social vulnerability triage. We propose a novel system for identifying and prioritising vulnerable groups in various hazard scenarios and for translating their needs into institutional capacity-development plans in five domains of disaster management: (1) governance, (2) infrastructure and critical services, (3) risk management, (4) communication, and (5) engagement. To enhance preparedness, scenario-based social vulnerability assessments must be integrated into disaster management capacity development.

Disaster preparedness capacity development:

A scenario-based system for social vulnerability reduction

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#disasters #risk #preparedness #vulnerability

Disaster preparedness capacity development: A scenario-based system for social vulnerability reduction. By Kati Orru, Sten Hansson, Kristi Nero, Salvatore Marchese. While capacity development in the field of disaster risk management should be evidence-based, institutional capacity building is rarely rooted in a thorough vulnerability analysis. This study highlights gaps in all-hazards disaster preparedness approaches and examines how disaster preparedness planning can systematically draw upon social vulnerability triage. We propose a novel system for identifying and prioritising vulnerable groups in various hazard scenarios and for translating their needs into institutional capacity-development plans in five domains of disaster management: (1) governance, (2) infrastructure and critical services, (3) risk management, (4) communication, and (5) engagement. To enhance preparedness, scenario-based social vulnerability assessments must be integrated into disaster management capacity development.

Disaster preparedness capacity development:

A scenario-based system for social vulnerability reduction

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#disasters #risk #preparedness #vulnerability

Communication-related vulnerability to disasters: A heuristic framework The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its communicative drivers have remained understudied. In…

Communication-related vulnerability to #disasters: A heuristic framework

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Amazing work by voters of Hungary today. Ending democratic backsliding requires a public that chooses to embrace democratic norms and reject autocracy - and the Hungarian people did just that.
Since my recent work explores authoritarianism, thought I'd share some observations from the literature:

Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Discourses of blame in strategic narratives: the case of Russia’s 5G stories Governments spread strategic narratives via media to influence foreign audiences and policy makers. A frequent but understudied feature of strategic narratives is the discursive construction of bla...

Discourses of blame in strategic narratives

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Disentangling the “Pathways of Exclusion”: Naming, Blaming, Shaming, and Stigmatization in World Politics Abstract. This article provides a nuanced theoretical investigation into naming, shaming, blaming, and stigmatization as distinct yet interconnected mechan

Naming, Blaming, Shaming, and Stigmatization in World Politics

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Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis This article investigates how political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis discursively constructs temporalities as a means of legitimizing crisis management. Building on Critical Discourse Studi...

Research Article
Lydie Denis:
Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis
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Blame Games in Cyberspace: How Foreign Cues Shape Public Opinion on Cyber Attribution and Retribution Conflicting narratives about who is responsible for a cyberattack are often thought to create uncertainty about the aggressor’s identity, which in turn could lead to greater restraint in state resp...

My paper "Blame Games in Cyberspace" is now in print in International Interactions.

The TL;DR: When allies back a cyber attribution claim, the public gets more confident and more hawkish. When adversaries deny it, especially by contesting the evidence, confidence dips, though less reliably.

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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

‘My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise “critique with an emancipatory intent” but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.’

Nancy Fraser, new on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies Edited by Bernhard Forchtner and Franco Zappettini Featuring a series of engaging conversations with key figures in the field, this accessible Handbook outlines the crucial concepts of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Mapping the existing literature, contributors use qualitative and quantitative research to invite new engagements with CDS and to provide insight into primary debates.

📢 OUT NOW: Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies (2026)

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(PDF) Discursive strategies of power and governance PDF | In this chapter, I map the field of linguistically informed critical studies of power and governance, identify key trends, and point to future... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

Discursive strategies of power and governance (2026)

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Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis This article investigates how political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis discursively constructs temporalities as a means of legitimizing crisis management. Building on Critical Discourse Studi...

Temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis

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Experimental approaches to #argumentation

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Why do people who oppose conspiracy theories help disseminate them? That is one key question in the new article "Opposing Yet Still Disseminating Conspiracy Theories", written by myself and Luna Gao and published in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social.

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In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Here is my best Habermas story.

I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

Constructing continuity: on the establishment of temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis This article investigates how political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis discursively constructs temporalities as a means of legitimizing crisis management. Building on Critical Discourse Studi...

Temporal legitimization in political discourse during the COVID-19 crisis

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Can governments scapegoat the #IMF 🌐 to avoid domestic #blame for austerity policies? 🏦📉

In a study with @rodabouharb.bsky.social @uclspp.bsky.social & Bernhard Reinsberg @uofgsocsci.bsky.social, published in @gsqjournal.bsky.social #GSQ, we put this claim to a test: doi.org/10.1093/isag...

NEW ON FIRSTVIEW

"Paths to action: Fantasy, ideology and incitement in an extreme-right narrative" by @discodiscourse.bsky.social

#Narrative #NarrativeActionProcesses #ModalTokens #ExtremeRight #Neo-NaziFantasy
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Social vulnerability triage: a dynamic scenario-based system for disaster planning and response Disaster response planners face a difficult task: not only do they need to foresee a multitude of complex future hazard scenarios, but they also make critical decisions concerning what kind of assi...

Social vulnerability triage: a dynamic scenario-based system for disaster planning and response

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Arguing for peace: in celebration of the journal’s 20th anniversary Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Ahead of Print, 2026)

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse

-- by Manfred Kienpointner

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Death An essential reference to the intersection of language and death and dying, this book presents an overview of the methodologies, current debates, history and fu…

Delighted that the Bloomsbury Handbook of Language of Death is out. Edited by Justyna Ziolkowska and me.

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Quick PSA for all mid-career academics and above: people may be citing articles with your name on them that don't exist.

Arguing for peace: in celebration of the journal’s 20th anniversary Published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Ahead of Print, 2026)

How to argue for peace and how to evaluate argumentation within peace discourse

-- by Manfred Kienpointner

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Government Communication on Social Media: Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions | Review | Media and Communication Sten Hansson, Nic DePaula

Review of government social media communication research

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Out now: 'Critical Discourse Studies and Health Communication'. Chapter in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by B. Forchtner and F. Zappettini. Honoured to publish in this book alongside many whose work has inspired me. Chapter pre-print #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Doxxing is the deliberate, unauthorized disclosure of personal information, often with malicious intent. Notably, it became a key method of public shaming and vigilantism during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. This Element understands and examines doxxing as a discursive practice. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), it analyzes online forum discussions, survey and interview data from Hong Kong university students. Findings are examined alongside institutional legal texts to show how doxxing is discursively constructed, legitimized, and contested by different social actors. The case study identifies linguistic strategies such as metaphor, euphemism, and irony, along with legitimation discourses framing doxxing as social justice, deterrence, or moral self-defense. The Element also problematizes legal ambiguities and ethical tensions surrounding doxxing practices. By foregrounding the interplay between grassroots and legal discourses, it contributes to forensic linguistics scholarship on digital harm, power, and morality in contemporary mediated environments.

Doxxing Discourse

By @carmen-lee.bsky.social

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This is a fantastic chapter on discourse, power and governance. Fully recommend to anyone working in this area.

(PDF) Discursive strategies of power and governance PDF | In this chapter, I map the field of linguistically informed critical studies of power and governance, identify key trends, and point to future... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

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