Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place, Culture and Survival

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
	Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Layered disasters and gender-based violence: A global perspective
	1.1 Gender-based violence within layered disasters
	1.2 Disasters and gender-based violence around the world
	1.3 Patriarchy as disastrous: explaining the relationship between disasters and gender-based violence
		A feminist approach
		Patriarchy, gender and disasters
		GBV, poverty and disasters
	1.4 Disaster planning, management and recovery: multiple actors responding to GBV
		Prevailing disaster management plans and GBV
		Trauma, survival and recovery
	1.5 Methodological challenges and prospects
	1.6 The structure of the book
	References
Chapter 2: Gender-based violence before, during and after cyclones in the coastal region of Bangladesh
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Background: disasters and GBV in Bangladesh
	2.3 Aims, study area and methodology
		The study area
		Methodology
	2.4 GBV in Barguna during non-disaster periods
		Domestic violence against wives and its causes
			Dowry
			Poverty
			Extra-marital relationships and extra marriages
			In the name of tradition
		Child marriage
		Additional marriages and wife abandonment
		Rape, abuse and eve-teasing
		Trafficking
		GBV and male survivors
	2.5 GBV before, during and after disasters
		Rape, sexual abuse and threats during disasters
			During the warning period before the cyclone hits
			During the disaster: GBV at cyclone shelters
		Sexual harassment during the post-disaster period
		Post-disaster poverty and domestic violence
		Child and forced marriages after disasters
		Social crisis and abuse in the post-disaster period
	2.6 The impacts of GBV: health, socio-economic position and vulnerability to future disasters
		Physical and mental health impacts of physical violence
			Researcher: ‘Did you get any treatment?’
		GBV and changes in socio-economic status
	2.7 Conclusion: women, the ultimate victim-survivors of GBV and disasters
	References
Chapter 3: The impacts of disasters and gender-based violence: Flooding in Rangpur, Bangladesh
	3.1 Introduction: studying GBV on the banks of River Jamunashawari, Rangpur, Bangladesh
	3.2 Background: the concurrence of flooding and GBV
	3.3 Aims and methodology
	3.4 Study area: demographic and socio-economic characteristics of Kashiganj village
		Demographic characteristics (age, sex, education and occupation)
		Household income and poverty
	3.5 Socio-cultural and gendered aspects of GBV in village life
		Child marriage, dowry and culture
		Domestic violence
		Sexual abuse, harassment and rape
	3.6 GBV during flooding and its aftermath
		Women's experiences of GBV in shelters
		Women’s experiences of GBV in flooded houses
		GBV after flooding: the most crucial time for survival
			Domestic and dowry violence
			Child marriage
			Forced prostitution
			Migration and trafficking
			Flooding and male abuse survivors
	3.7 Gendered power relations and GBV
		Masculinity, women’s empowerment and cultural aspects of gender-based violence
		Male approval as a precondition of women’s empowerment, in relation to GBV
		Social status, power and GBV
		Poverty, flooding and GBV – a vicious cycle
	3.8 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Flooding, mental health and crime: Women’s experiences in England
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Gender-based violence and disasters in the UK context
	4.3 Study area
	4.4 Methodology
	4.5 The impacts of flooding on housing and financial status
	4.6 The impacts of flooding on physical health, caring responsibilities and mental health
	4.7 Flooding, crime and GBV
	4.8 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Disaster patriarchy in hyper-isolation: Covid-19 and gender-based violence
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Covid-19 and gender-based violence: global impacts
	5.3 The social and regional stratification of the risks of GBV during the pandemic
	5.4 Hyper-isolation during the pandemic
	5.5 Racialised disaster patriarchy and the pandemic
	5.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Analysing the relationships between gender-based violence, disasters and place
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Place and culture in GBV and disasters
		Similarities and differences: an intersectional approach
		Place matters
			Poverty, structural violence and place
	6.3 The role of trauma within layered disasters
		Psychological impacts of GBV and disasters
		Psychological impacts of domestic violence and its complexity
			No place to go
			Powerlessness and frustration
	6.4 Gendering violence
		Pathways to becoming a perpetrator or victim: explanations and examples
		Men’s controlling power and societal support: experiences from the field
		Women as victims: power imbalances and self-confidence
		Men's violent behaviour in disasters: explanations from the field
			Stress and tension in disasters and social acceptance
			Powerlessness
			Controlling women and money
		When women abuse men and other women, and men are victims
			Power dynamics and GBV
			When women abuse women
	6.5 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Responding to gender-based violence during disasters
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Victim-survivors’ strategies: growing resilience or living as victims?
		‘I tolerate everything’
		Taking financial responsibility
		Escaping and resisting violence
		Reporting gender-based violence to the authorities
	7.3 The limits of formal responses to layered disasters
	7.4 Recommendations for policy and practice
		Poverty alleviation
		Increasing law enforcement and legal support
		Introducing and enhancing awareness programmes on gender and gender-based violence
		Men as allies
		Community involvement and women's participation
		Healthcare facilities for GBV victim-survivors in disasters
		Gender-sensitive disaster management plans to improve GBV prevention and response
		Gaps in knowledge
	7.5 Conclusion: responses to layered disasters
	References
Index