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Helle Rydtröm. Foto.

Helle Rydström

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Helle Rydtröm. Foto.

Disasters, Ruins, and Crises: Masculinity and Ramifications of Storms in Vietnam

Author

  • Helle Rydström

Summary, in English

This article explores climate disasters in the era of the Anthropocene from a gender specific crisis perspective; as conditions of unpredictable outcomes and ruination which are encroaching differentiated ramifications upon inhabitants in coastal Vietnam. The article contests the ways in which the notions of vulnerability and resilience tend to understand a disaster as an interrupting event, which could be overcome by those upon whom the damage has befallen so life can return to normal. A crisis perspective, the article argues, offers an alternative avenue to an analysis of disasters by focusing on the entanglements between a crisis of emergency and a spectrum of various crises antecedents fostered by gendered livelihoods, masculinized privileges, and violences. When various crises modalities, intensities, and temporalities intersect with one another, a crisis in context might morph into crisis as context; into a disordered order of slow harm which impedes the return to pre-disaster normalcy.

Department/s

  • Department of Gender Studies

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Pages

351-370

Publication/Series

Ethnos

Volume

85

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Gender Studies

Keywords

  • anthropocene
  • crisis
  • climate disaster
  • gender
  • masculinity
  • violence
  • Vietnam

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0014-1844