Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters

Nahid Rezwana is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Her fields of interest are hazards and disaster management, gender, social inequalities, health and climate change. Her scholarship explores how and why disasters have uneven impacts on women and how these conditions could be improved with gender-sensitive disaster management.Rachel Pain is Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. Her research interests include gender-based violence, disasters and recovery, community and urban trauma, the relationships between domestic and sexual abuse and terrorism/warfare, and the theory, politics and practice of participatory/co-production approaches to research, learning and action.

• Chapter 1. Layered disasters and gender-based violence: A global perspective1.1 Gender-based violence within layered disasters 1.2 Disasters and gender-based violence around the world1.3 Patriarchy as disastrous: Exploring the relationship between disasters and gender-based violence1.4 Disaster planning, management and recovery: multiple actors responding to GBV1.5 Methodological challenges and prospects 1.6 The structure of the book Chapter 2. Gender-based violence before, during and after cyclones in the coastal region of Bangladesh 2.1 Introduction2.2 Background: Disasters and GBV in Bangladesh 2.3 Aims, study area and methodology 2.4 GBV in Barguna during non-disaster periods2.5 GBV before, during and after disasters2.6 The impacts of GBV: health, socio-economic position and vulnerability to future disasters2.7 Conclusion: Women, the ultimate victims of GBV and disastersChapter 3. The impacts of disasters and gender-based violence: flooding in Rangpur, Bangladesh3.1 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 3.5 Socio-cultural and gendered aspects of GBV in village life3.6 GBV during flooding and its aftermath3.7 Gendered power relations and GBV3.8 ConclusionChapter 4. Flooding, mental health and crime: women's experiences in England4.1 Introduction4.2 Gender-based violence and disasters in the UK context4.3 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 GBV4.8 Conclusion Chapter 5. Disaster patriarchy in hyper-isolation: Covid-19 and gender-based violence5.1 Introduction 5.2 Covid-19 and gender-based violence: global impacts5.3 The social and regional stratification of the risks of GBV during the pandemic5.4 Hyper-isolation during the pandemic5.5 Racialised disaster patriarchy and the pandemic5.6 ConclusionChapter 6. Analysing the relationships between gender-based violence, disasters and place6.1 Introduction 6.2 Place and culture in GBV and disasters6.3 The role of trauma within layered disasters6.4 Gendering violence6.5 ConclusionChapter 7. Responding to gender-based violence during disasters7.1 Introduction 7.2 Victim-survivors' strategies: growing resilience or living as victims?7.3 The limits of formal responses to layered disasters7.4 Recommendations for policy and practice7.5 Conclusion: responses to layered disasters