Table Of ContentMen, Masculinities and Disaster
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 con-
text 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 cul-
tural contexts through original research and theoretical reflection, building on the
under-utilized orientation of critical men’s studies. This body of thought, not pre-
viously applied in disaster contexts, explores how men gain, maintain and use
power to assert control over women. Contributors examine men’s lives on the
“gendered terrain of disasters,” 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 margin-
alized 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.
Elaine Enarson is an independent scholar based in Colorado, USA.
Bob Pease is Professor of Social Work at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Contents
Notes on contributors ix
Foreword xvii
KENNETH HEWITT
PART I
Critical men’s studies and disaster 1
1 The gendered terrain of disaster: thinking about men and
masculinities 3
ELAINE ENARSON AND BOB PEASE
2 Masculinism, climate change and “man-made” disasters:
toward an environmental profeminist response 21
BOB PEASE
3 Men and masculinities in the social movement for a just
reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina 34
RACHEL E. LUFT
4 Hyper-masculinity and disaster: the reconstruction of
hegemonic masculinity in the wake of calamity 45
DUKE W. AUSTIN
5 Rereading gender and patriarchy through a “lens of
masculinity”: the “known” story and new narratives
from post-Mitch Nicaragua 56
SARAH BRADSHAW
vi Contents
PART II
The high cost of disaster for men: Coping with loss
and change 67
6 Men, masculinities and wildfire: embodied resistance
and rupture 69
CHRISTINE ERIKSEN AND GORDON WAITT
7 Emotional and personal costs for men of the Black Saturday
bushfires in Victoria, Australia 81
DEBRA PARKINSON AND CLAIRE ZARA
8 The tsunami’s wake: mourning and masculinity in
Eastern Sri Lanka 92
MALATHI DE ALWIS
9 Japanese families decoupling following the Fukushima
Nuclear Plant disaster: men’s choice between economic
stability and radiation exposure 103
RIKA MORIOKA
PART III
Diversity of impact and response among men in the
aftermath of disaster 115
10 Disabled masculinities and disasters 117
MARK SHERRY
11 Masculinity, sexuality and disaster: unpacking gendered
LGBT experiences in the 2011 Brisbane floods in
Queensland, Australia 128
ANDREW GORMAN-MURRAY, SCOTT MCKINNON
AND DALE DOMINEY-HOWES
12 Indigenous masculinities in a changing climate:
vulnerability and resilience in the United States 140
KIRSTEN VINYETA, KYLE POWYS WHYTE AND KATHY LYNN
13 Youth creating disaster recovery and resilience in Canada
and the United States: dimensions of the male youth
experience 152
JENNIFER TOBIN-GURLEY, ROBIN COX, LORI PEEK,
KYLIE PYBUS, DMITRIY MASLENITSYN AND
CHERYL HEYKOOP
Contents vii
PART IV 163
Transforming masculinity in disaster management
14 Firefighters, technology and masculinity in the
micro-management of disasters: Swedish examples 165
MATHIAS ERICSON AND ULF MELLSTRÖM
15 Resisting and accommodating the masculinist gender regime in
firefighting: an insider view from the United Kingdom 175
DAVE BAIGENT
16 Using a gendered lens to reduce disaster and climate risk in
Southern Africa: the potential leadership of men’s
organizations 186
KYLAH GENADE
17 Training Pacific male managers for gender equality in disaster
response and management 197
STEPHEN FISHER
18 Integrating men and masculinities in Caribbean disaster risk
management 209
LEITH DUNN
19 Men, masculinities and disaster: an action research agenda 219
ELAINE ENARSON
Afterword 234
RAEWYN CONNELL
Index 237
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Contributors
Duke W. Austin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State
University, East Bay and a Senior Fellow for the Urban Ethnography Project
at Yale University. He researches the intersections of race, gender, immigra-
tion and disasters in the United States. His previous work explores these topics
in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and in disaster preparation among San
Francisco’s community-based organizations. Professor Austin has also edited a
volume for the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
and published research on race as a caste-like system, a concept that was orig-
inally presented in the classic ethnographies Caste and Class in a Southern
Town (1937) and Deep South (1941).
Dave Baigent was an operational firefighter for 31 years, an officer and a Fire
Brigade Union representative in the London Fire Brigade. Dave took a first
degree in sociology at Anglia Ruskin Cambridge and then a PhD on how
firemen construct their masculinity. He used a profeminist autocritique as a
means to interrogate firemen’s identity and to help others to do the same. As
a Principal Lecturer, Dave wrote and led the UK’s first social science Public
Service Degree, and undertook a variety of research and consultancy projects
into the effects of masculinity in the fire service in the UK, Australia and in
Sweden. In the last three years he has been advising the Swedish government
on these issues and participating in education aimed at getting more women
involved in the fire service.
Sarah Bradshaw is an Associate Professor at Middlesex University in London
and has worked in gender and development for over 20 years, combining lec-
turing and researching with work with NGOs. While working in Nicaragua, she
lived through Hurricane Mitch and was involved in the civil society initiatives
to influence the national and international reconstruction program, including
working on a number of research projects to explore the gendered impact. She
has continued to work on both development and disasters, including publish-
ing a recent book on the theme Gender, Development and Disasters (2013).
She continues to combine academic and advocacy work. Most recently she has
been working with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network seek-
ing to influence the new Sustainable Development Goals.
