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.

About the Author

Catarina Kinnvall is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Helle Rydstroem is Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Reviews

"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; OErebro 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 insight and solid empirical research how climate-related disasters are intrinsically gendered, and how best we can deal with their ramifications in order to reduce risk for men and women alike. A multi-disciplinary, multi-methodological, and global volume which is bound to bring scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers up-to-date. Read it!"- Susann Baez Ullberg, Associate Senior Lecturer, Uppsala University, Sweden; and the co-founder and former coordinator of the European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DICAN)'

"This book is clearly timely. Its illuminates why climate change activism and policies are sorely needed. That it does so by focusing on responses in both the Global South and Global North serves to underline its argument that catastrophe does not occur in a socioeconomic and political voids, but 'lands' in places where there are already global intersectional inequalities. Together the chapters present a holistic picture that is locally-informed and theoretically sophisticated. The analyses show that the women facing climate catastrophes are agentic in coping with, addressing and ameliorating the precariousness of their circumstances. In taking a holistic view, this book is genuinely part of an intersectional decolonising project. It is a compelling if at times distressing book, that promises to expand all our thinking about climate change and the Anthropocene Age. It deserves to be widely read."

- Ann Phoenix, University College London

"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; OErebro 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 insight and solid empirical research how climate-related disasters are intrinsically gendered, and how best we can deal with their ramifications in order to reduce risk for men and women alike. A multi-disciplinary, multi-methodological, and global volume which is bound to bring scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers up-to-date. Read it!"- Susann Baez Ullberg, Associate Senior Lecturer, Uppsala University, Sweden; and the co-founder and former coordinator of the European Association of Social Anthropologists 'Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DICAN)'

"This book is clearly timely. Its illuminates why climate change activism and policies are sorely needed. That it does so by focusing on responses in both the Global South and Global North serves to underline its argument that catastrophe does not occur in a socioeconomic and political voids, but 'lands' in places where there are already global intersectional inequalities. Together the chapters present a holistic picture that is locally-informed and theoretically sophisticated. The analyses show that the women facing climate catastrophes are agentic in coping with, addressing and ameliorating the precariousness of their circumstances. In taking a holistic view, this book is genuinely part of an intersectional decolonising project. It is a compelling if at times distressing book, that promises to expand all our thinking about climate change and the Anthropocene Age. It deserves to be widely read."

- Ann Phoenix, University College London

Book Information
ISBN 9780367727895
Author Catarina Kinnvall
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 460g