Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications
Catarina Kinnvall editor Helle Rydstrom editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:14th Jun '19
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This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.
Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where power relations, institutional and socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies, patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a denial of environmental crisis. This book stresses the need for a gender-responsive framework that can provide a more holistic understanding of disasters and climate change. A critical feminist perspective uncovers the gendered politics of disaster and climate change.
This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers working within the areas of Climate Change response, Gender Studies, Disaster Studies and International Relations.
"Ranging far and wide – geographically, conceptually, and by topic – the Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gendered Ramifications edited collection presents a multi-sided, critical feminist set of perspectives on the gendered politics of disaster, hazards and climate change. This is an important book in bringing together, and demonstrating the intertwining of, two of the most urgent challenges of the contemporary and future worlds: climate change and continuing gender domination."
- Jeff Hearn, Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Örebro University, Sweden, University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World
"This is a book about connections: between disasters and the everyday; between the abstract domain of theory and the concrete lived experiences of people; between academic disciplines; and between the many intersecting axes of difference that comprise the gendered person. In revealing these complex and nuanced connections, in a range of settings and circumstances, in ways that are both theoretically and empirically strong, the editors shine a critical feminist light on what is, too often, a simplistic and naturalised space of climate hazards and disasters. This will be an important reference text on the meaning of a truly gender responsive approach for scientists, policymakers, academics and students of many disciplines."
- Professor Maureen Fordham. Centre Director, IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster, University College London (UCL)
"Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gendered Ramifications couldn’t be more timely. Gender research is currently under attack in many parts of the world and climate change denial is alarmingly commonplace in the era of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the human challenges of living with climate hazards, this book shows with great theoretical insigh
ISBN: 9781138354364
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Weight: 498g
288 pages