Steve Matthewman (he/him/ia) is Professor | Ahorangi, in Sociology | Mātauranga Hapori, in the Faculty of Arts | Te Kura Tangata, at The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a sociologist of disasters. His recent book projects have been edited collections on COVID-19 and the social sciences, a decade of disaster experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch (with Shinya Uekusa and Bruce Glavovich), and the third edition of Being Sociological (with Bruce Curtis and David Mayeda). He is Co-Principal Investigator of a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden grant, ‘The Residential Red Zone (RRZ) as Futures Lab: Placemaking in the Anthropocene’. Theoretically, it explores the connections between Critical Disaster Studies and Critical Future Studies. Practically, it examines what happens after managed retreat.