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Hegemonic masculinity and the gendering of men in disaster management: implications for social work education
Disaster studies have been slow to address gender issues in the management of disasters. Given the neglect of gender in the previous scholarship on disasters, most of the recent writing on the gendering of disasters has understandably focused on women's experiences in relation to risk management, emergency responses, post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. There has been little interrogation of the ways in which hegemonic masculinity and men's privileged positioning in patriarchal gender regimes impact on the various stages of disaster management. In this paper I draw upon my experience in researching men and masculinities in Australia to draw connections between men's privilege, rural masculinities, men's experiences of trauma, men's violence and men's gendered experience of disasters, especially in relation to bush fires. The paper relates insights arising from these studies to men's responses to disasters, their involvement in disaster management and their post-disaster experiences. The implications of this analysis for a disaster curricula in social work education is outlined.
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Advances in Social Work and Welfare EducationVolume
16Issue
2Pagination
60 - 72Publisher
Australian Association for Social Work and Welfare EducationLocation
Sydney, N.S.W.ISSN
1329-0584Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2014, Australian Association for Social Work and Welfare EducationUsage metrics
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