1st Edition
Disaster Recovery through Women’s Eyes Reimagining Resilience
By Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete
Copyright 2027
210 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book (re)centres women’s situated knowledges as a powerful starting point for analyzing disaster recovery and rethinking the contested concept of resilience. Through an ethnographic account of reconstruction following Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, it demonstrates how women’s everyday negotiations with loss and personal aspirations form new imaginaries of recovery grounded in a feminist... Read more
Introduction: Encountering Resilience in Uncertain Times 1. Epistemologies of the Vulnerable Part 1: 'Building Back Better' 2. Benevolent Discipline 3. Governing Through Women Part 2: Reimagining Resilience 4. A House of One's Own 5. Lived Resilience Conclusion: Hope in Virulent Times
Biography
Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. Her work examines the everyday politics and ethics of living with, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other forms of crisis.
