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Shimberg Center for Housing Studies (Jason von Meding Research Group)
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What we study
The von Meding Lab studies how injustice and inequality drive disaster risks and shapes disaster impacts. Research is participatory, focusing on community-centered approaches.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Surveys & interviews
- Human participants
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Disrupting Power Dynamics and Promoting Equitable Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction: Freirean Approach to Participatory Action Research in Jacksonville, Florida
2026 · Journal of disaster studies.
Uses participatory action research to promote equitable disaster risk reduction in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Reciprocity or token gestures? On the conditions of knowledge production in disaster scholarship
2026 · Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal
Analyzes how disaster scholarship produces knowledge and whether it aligns with the Disaster Studies Manifesto.
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- Disasters as Sites of Injustice and Struggle: Toward Liberation and Solidarity
2026 · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
- What is a Disaster? an Overview of (Contested) Disaster Concepts
2025 · Human-environment interactions
Explains why disasters are often seen as natural events, ignoring their social and political causes.
- Community perception and stewardship of public coastal infrastructure in Cedar Key, Florida
2025 · Frontiers in Marine Science
Tests how people in Cedar Key, Florida, view and manage living shorelines to protect against flooding.
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