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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Resilience aspirations, precarious futures: gender invisibility, racialised risk, and forced displacements in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

12/02/2025

20 pages long

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Resilience aspirations, precarious futures: gender invisibility, racialised risk, and forced displacements in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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In Rio de Janeiro, efforts to create a ‘global’, ‘sustainable’, and ‘resilient’ city have contributed to perpetuating precarious conditions in favelas. These informal settlements have historically been targeted by urban development and modernisation initiatives. Recently, the displacement of over 22,000 families from Rio’s favelas has been justified in the context of climate change adaptation and […]

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Organised dispossession and development as disaster: analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking

12/02/2025

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Organised dispossession and development as disaster: analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking

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Disasters are often constructed as unique and extraordinary events. Such accounts ignore the social histories and inequalities that render specific communities/regions prone to disaster. In this paper, we focus on how coloniality and caste function together to produce dispossession among Dalits, Bahujans, and Adivasis (DBAs) through continuous violence and illegal appropriation of land and resources […]

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Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

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This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform […]

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Beyond drinking water supply infrastructure: gendered lived experiences in coastal Bangladesh

12/02/2025

22 pages long

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Beyond drinking water supply infrastructure: gendered lived experiences in coastal Bangladesh

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Women and water have extensively been written about, especially in the context of disaster. Given increasing water scarcity and frequent disruptions to water infrastructure, a large number of water purification technologies have been developed in numerous water-scarce regions by both national and international stakeholders. Despite technology development and demonstrated benefits, there are certain challenges to […]

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Neend Udaao Andolan: Bhopali women’s responses to the ongoing environmental and health disaster surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, Bhopal, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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Neend Udaao Andolan: Bhopali women’s responses to the ongoing environmental and health disaster surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, Bhopal, India

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December 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster: the toxic gas leak on 2–3 December 1984 from the US-owned Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Generations of people across the world have grown up with the story of the ‘Bhopal gas disaster’ and governments have passed laws to prevent such […]

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Promoting youth advocacy for resilience to disasters: a pilot study

12/02/2025

23 pages long

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Promoting youth advocacy for resilience to disasters: a pilot study

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Through Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters (YARDs), we offer a case study of a middle-school science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) programme to engage youth in disaster resilience planning through mapmaking and advocacy. From 2021 to 2023, we designed and implemented a 14-session curriculum that empowers middle-school youth (ages 11–14) to advocate for […]

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Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Building Community Resilience: Strategies of Women and Nonbinary-led Grassroots Organisations in New York City

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The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally around the globe, but in both the global North and South, they disproportionately affect poor and marginalised communities, exacerbating pre-existing intersectional inequalities. Women and marginalised groups have always been active in resilience-building efforts for the survival of their communities, and often at the forefront of place-based […]

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A Beirut blast: how inclusive disaster management for refugees and hosts reassembled a community in a disintegrated city

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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A Beirut blast: how inclusive disaster management for refugees and hosts reassembled a community in a disintegrated city

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In the aftermath of the Beirut Port explosion, LGBT+ NGOs in Lebanon emerged as pillars of unity and support, particularly for women in all their diversity (WiTD) and gender minorities in both refugee and host communities. These NGOs swiftly pivoted towards disaster management, prioritising risk mitigation and rapid emergency response strategies amid the chaos. Their […]

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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

12/02/2025

25 pages long

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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid

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The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies […]

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