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Short Summary
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| Title |
Gender and Natural Disasters: Why We Should be
Focusing on a Gender Perspective of the Tsunami Disaster |
| Author |
Jones, R. |
| Publication
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January 2005 |
| Publisher |
The Association for Women's Rights in Development
(AWID) |
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Short Summary |
Jones argues that, in the aftermath of such catastrophes
as the tsunami, disaster management plans and humanitarian assistance
must be linked with gender dynamics in order to "precipitate a greater
understanding of what is needed to ensure that women's unique circumstances
during natural disasters are not only recognized, but acted upon."
That is, while the physical aspects of natural disasters are fixed,
"the social and economic aspects are not. They can be reshaped, used
and sometimes abused." In the best cases, she suggests, natural disasters
can even become a platform for social change: Using such communication
tools as the media and such strategies as community mobilisation,
women can voice their vulnerabilities, reduce their invisibility,
and restructure misguided gendered conceptions that limit them - during
disasters and beyond. |
| Summary By |
Communication Initiative website www.comminit.com |
| Complete Document |
 http://www.awid.org/go.php?list=analysis&prefix=analysis&item=00226
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