About the Book
It is an apparent paradox that human beings are all at once witnessing both persistent progress and increased feeling of insecurity. With sharp increase in the number of events and intensity of natural disasters, it has become a burning issue for all societies. The fact of the matter is that socio-economic development and disasters have originated in the same ongoing processes of change. Consequently, as the world population grows, some people are more exposed to hazards than others because of their specific historical contexts that are produced through interactions among the political, economic, demographic and environmental processes.
To embark on this endeavour, this volume sheds some light on the gendered vulnerabilities to natural disasters. The broad debate of this volume is to interlink gender vulnerability to disasters. It addresses some basic and relevant questions: Why and how do women face greater exposure and risk to natural disasters? What are the ways to integrate gender concerns in disaster risk reduction in order to make women and children less vulnerable? As such, this volume presents a foundation for disciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research for social scientists and social workers. It further provides a huge source of groundwork for science-based decision making by planners, emergency managers and other practicing professionals.
Contents
PART I: Introduction1 Natural Disaster and Women: A Gendered Perspective /
Pradeep Kumar ParidaPART II: Gender Inequality, Susceptibility and Disaster2 Gender and Disaster: An Overview of Differential Vulnerabilities /
Sudha Sitharaman3 The Socio-cultural Aspects of Gendered Vulnerabilities to Disasters: Case Studies of Women-Headed Households, Post Mumbai Train Blasts, 2006 / N
alini Yadav4 Gender Difference in PTSD, Mental Health and Quality of Life: A Focus on Female Tsunami Survivors /
Neethu P.S. and Surendra Kumar Sia5 Dealing with Gender Vulnerability through Mediated Communication in the Tamil Nadu Floods, 2015 /
S. Mahalakshmi and Sunitha Kuppuswamy
PART III: Women’s Vulnerability and Responses to Disaster6 Revisiting Odisha Super Cyclone of 1999: The Barriers and Coping Mechanisms of Disabled Women to Natural Disaster /
Pradeep Kumar Parida7 Impact of Nepal Earthquake of 2015 on Women: Challenges and Responses /
Rishi Gupta8 Women’s Participation in Relief Work Utilizing Social Media Network /
Shanmugaraj G. and Balasaravanan T.9 Understanding Women’s Experience of Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth: A Review Study /
Alphonsa Jose K. and Surendra Kumar SiaPART IV: Assessing Preparedness, Recovery and Mitigation10 Gender Sensitivity in Disaster Risk Management: Lesson Learnt from the Chennai Floods of 2015 /
Suriya S.11 Indigenous Knowledge System and Disaster Management among the Indigenous People of North-eastern Himalayas, India /
Ajeet Jaiswal12 Natural Calamities and Native Perceptions: Evolving Effective Rehabilitation Strategies /
Jesurathnam Devarapalli13 Disaster Diplomacy in South Asia: India’s Humanitarian Assistance Programmes in Neighbourhood /
Sibaram BadatyaPART V: Conclusion14 Natural Disaster and Women: Towards a Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction /
Pradeep Kumar Parida
About the Author / Editor
Pradeep Kumar Parida is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Pondicherry University, Puducherry. His areas of interest include sociology of disasters and Sociology of development. He has authored a number of articles in both national and international journals. In recent years, he has been constantly trying to enhance his knowledge base on sociology of disasters by using suitable methodologies and forceful theories. Topics related to natural disaster and its impact on society, disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, evacuation behaviour and differential vulnerability have been at the forefront of his investigations.
