This book marks a significant contribution to the development of queer disaster studies - exploring how disaster-related experiences and needs of sexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQA+) people manifest and differ across national, cultural, and regional boundaries from the Global North and South; from culturally diverse communities, drawing together researchers and professionals working in government, non-government agencies, emergency management, community, and humanitarian organisations. Uniquely, it contains contributions from sexual and gender diverse people with lived experience of disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises and people who have been subject to heterosexist discrimination in disaster relief and recovery-related services, as employees and volunteers.
A crucial, overdue contribution to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 5: Gender Equality, this book identifies areas to further the development of just and equitable disaster, climate change and humanitarian crises policy, programs, and services that include and address the needs of sexual and gender diverse people.
Chapter 1 - Queering disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises:
An introduction.- SECTION I.- Queer(y)ing disaster studies.- Chapter 2
Something borrowed, something new: Navigating the emerging field of queer
disaster studies.
Chapter 3 - Queer vulnerability and political power in the
face of climate changes and associated disasters.- SECTION II. Disaster
justice and gender and sexual diversity.
Chapter4 Moving on: Exploring
mobilities of LGBT people in Christchurch following the 2011 earthquake.-
Chapter 5 - Applying a Disaster Justice Lens to LGBTQ+ Refugees in
Humanitarian Crises.
Chapter 6 - Gender and sexual diversity and the Urban
Climate Crisis: Intersectional Injustices of Housing and Livelihoods in
Kampala, Uganda.- SECTION III. Sins of omission: Procedural vulnerabilities
and the (re)marginalisation of queer people in disaster response and
recovery.
Chapter 7 - Impact of the 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami on
gender and sexual minorities.
Chapter 8 - Disasters, Intimate Partner
Violence, and Sex and Gender Communities.- SECTION IV. Doing it for
themselves: Queering disaster scholarship, media representations and
allyshiz.- Chapter 9 - Calling disaster scholarship in: Towards gender and
sexual diverse inclusive research practices.
Chapter 10 - Recognizing queer
climate justice.- Chapter 11 - Becoming professional allies: Opportunities to
advance SOGIESC inclusion in UK Emergency Management.- SECTION V. No longer
an optional extra: Queer-inclusive disaster policies and services.- Chapter
12 - Identities in disasters: Experiences of gender and sexual minorities
within disaster risk governance networks in Dominica.
Chapter 13 - No one
left behind? Gender and sexual minorities, marginalisation within the SDGs
and the impact of the Climate Emergency on their lives and communities.
Dale Dominey-Howes (he/him) is Professor of Hazard and Disaster Risk Sciences at the Sydney Environment Institute and School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Ashleigh Rushton (she/her) is a Disaster and Emergency Management Researcher and Planner, UK.
William Leonard (he/him) is Adjunct Research Fellow with Monash University, Disaster and Resilience Initiative (MUDRI), Australia and an independent Social Policy and Diversity consultant.
Marcilyn Cianfarani (she/they) is a queer Disaster and Emergency Management practitioner, working for Health Canada.
Lisa Overton (she/her-they/them) is a queer feminist academic working on intersectionalities linked to gendered-sexualities, crisis and disaster at Middlesex University, UK.
Haorui Wu (he/him) is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, Canada, the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Resilience (Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction) and the Director of the Building A Culture of Resilience Lab.
