Full Description
In the examination of gender as a driving force in disasters, too little attention has been paid to how women's or men's disaster experiences relate to the wider context of gender inequality, or how gender-just practice can help prevent disasters or address climate change at a structural level.
With a foreword from Kenneth Hewitt, an afterword from Raewyn Connell and contributions from renowned international experts, this book helps address the gap. It explores disasters in diverse environmental, hazard, political and cultural contexts through original research and theoretical reflection, building on the under-utilized orientation of critical men's studies. This body of thought, not previously applied in disaster contexts, explores how men gain, maintain and use power to assert control over women. Contributing authors examine the gender terrain of disasters 'through men's eyes,' considering how diverse forms of masculinities shape men's efforts to respond to and recover from disasters and other climate challenges. The book highlights both the high costs paid by many men in disasters and the consequences of dominant masculinity practices for women and marginalized men. It concludes by examining how disaster risk can be reduced through men's diverse efforts to challenge hierarchies around gender, sexuality, disability, age and culture.
Contents
Foreword
Section 1: Critical men's studies and disaster
1. The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Thinking About Men and Masculinities
2. Masculinism, Climate Change and 'Man-Made' Disasters: Towards an Environmental Profeminist Response
3. Men and Masculinities in the Social Movement for a Just Reconstruction After Hurricane Katrina
4. Hyper-Masculinity and Disaster: The Reconstruction of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Wake of Calamity
5. Re-Reading Gender and Patriarchy Through a 'Lens of Masculinity:' The 'Known' Story and New Narratives From Post-Mitch Nicaragua
Section 2: The high cost of disaster for men: Coping with loss and change
6. Men, Masculinities and Wildfire: Embodied Resistance and Rupture
7. Emotional and Personal Costs for Men of the Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia
8. The Tsunami's Wake: Mourning and Masculinity in Eastern Sri Lanka
9. Japanese Families Decoupling Following the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Disaster: Men's Choice between Economic Stability and Radiation Exposure
Section 3: Diversity of impact and response among men in the aftermath of disaster
10. Disabled Masculinities and Disasters
11. Masculinity, Sexuality and Disaster: Unpacking Gendered LGBT Experiences in the 2011 Brisbane Floods, Queensland, Australia
12. Indigenous Masculinities in a Changing Climate: Vulnerability and Resilience In the United States
13. Youth Creating Disaster Recovery and Resilience in Canada and the United States: Dimensions of the Male Youth Experience
Section 4: Transforming masculinity in disaster management
14. Firefighters, Technology and Masculinity in the Micro-management of Disasters: Swedish Examples
15. Resisting and Accommodating the Masculinist Gender Regime in Firefighting: An Insider View from the United Kingdom
16. Using a Gendered Lens to Reduce Disaster and Climate Risk in Southern Africa: The Potential Leadership of Men's Organizations
17. Training Pacific Male Managers for Gender Equality in Disaster Response and Management
18. Integrating Men and Masculinities in Caribbean Disaster Risk Management
19. Men, Masculinities and Disaster: An Action Research Agenda
20. Afterword
