Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises

by Dale Dominey-Howes (Editor), Ashleigh Rushton (Editor), William Leonard (Editor), Marcilyn Cianfarani (Editor), Lisa Overton (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819638567
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	06/30/2025
Series:	Sustainable Development Goals Series
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.