Journal
NATURAL HAZARDS
Volume 92, Issue 1, Pages 205-224Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-018-3204-4
Keywords
Gender; Social change; Disaster; Resilience; Vulnerability
Funding
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/N034899/1]
- EPSRC [EP/N034899/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- ESRC [RES-451-26-0546] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-451-26-0546] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N034899/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper examines changes in gender relations in a small coastal community as a result of the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami. Vulnerability and resilience are used as a conceptual framework to analyse these changes. Based on empirical evidence from a seven-year longitudinal study and quasi-ethnographic work, we explore changes in power relations at the different stages of the disaster and longer-term recovery as well as the conditions that fostered these changes. Our findings show distinct patterns of change. First, disasters can trigger long-lasting changes that challenge historical patriarchal relations. Second, while vulnerability increases following a disaster, resilience can potentially counteract women's vulnerability. We propose that resilience can be a pathway to produce long-term changes in gender relations and empower women in the context of disasters.
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