Gender and the Politics of Disaster Recovery: Dealing with the Aftermath

Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process. It shows how climate-induced disasters as well as the recent COVID-19 pandemic have impacted human lives and livelihoods across various global socioeconomic conditions, sociopolitical conditions, and the gendered relationships from the Global South perspective.

From the real experiences of the people vulnerable to disasters, this book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the post-disaster management in different contexts. The varied roles and responsibilities of men and women in different countries are also examined. It is often hard to understand how local and global politics are involved in humanitarian aid. This book also shows how lower-income and under-privileged communities are deprived of their right to access relief and rehabilitation due to political involvement.

This text also highlights effective methods of policy implementation for achieving sustainable recovery from these humanitarian crises. It will assist strategy planners and policymakers to focus on gender-based barriers and political hindrances as well as geological and socioeconomic factors in planning inclusive post-disaster activities. The book will be of interest to researchers, postgraduate students and scholars in the fields of Sociology, Social Anthropology, Development Studies, Gender and Cultural Studies, Area Studies, Human Geography, Disaster Management, Forestry and Environmental Science.

Sajal Roy is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales. Previously he held a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a scholar in critical development studies and human geography specialising in climate change social sciences, smart city development, sustainable livelihoods and development, gendered relations, refugee crisis management and climate justice. Sajal received his PhD in Climate Change Social Science in 2021. Dr Roy has taught several courses in Social sciences and Business Studies at Western Sydney University, University of Wollongong, and Australian Catholic University. Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in collaboration with Griffith Asia Centre, Griffith University, Sajal has recently completed a collaborative research project titled Gender and Leadership Inclusion in LAOS. With Taylor and Francis, his latest book is entitled Climate Change and Gendered Livelihoods in Bangladesh (2021).