Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises

This book marks a significant contribution to the development of queer disaster studies - exploring how disaster-related experiences and needs of sexual and gender diverse (LGBTIQA+) people manifest and differ across national, cultural, and regional boundaries from the Global North and South; from culturally diverse communities, drawing together researchers and professionals working in government, non-government agencies, emergency management, community, and humanitarian organisations. Uniquely, it contains contributions from sexual and gender diverse people with lived experience of disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises and people who have been subject to heterosexist discrimination in disaster relief and recovery-related services, as employees and volunteers.
A crucial, overdue contribution to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 5: Gender Equality, this book identifies areas to further the development of just and equitable disaster, climate change and humanitarian crises policy, programs, and services that include and address the needs of sexual and gender diverse people.

Chapter 1 - Queering disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises: An introduction.- SECTION I.- Queer(y)ing disaster studies.- Chapter 2 – Something borrowed, something new: Navigating the emerging field of queer disaster studies.- Chapter 3 - Queer vulnerability and political power in the face of climate changes and associated disasters.- SECTION II. Disaster justice and gender and sexual diversity.- Chapter4 – Moving on: Exploring mobilities of LGBT people in Christchurch following the 2011 earthquake.- Chapter 5 - Applying a Disaster Justice Lens to LGBTQ+ Refugees in Humanitarian Crises.- Chapter 6 - Gender and sexual diversity and the Urban Climate Crisis: Intersectional Injustices of Housing and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda.- SECTION III. Sins of omission: Procedural vulnerabilities and the (re)marginalisation of queer people in disaster response and recovery.- Chapter 7 - Impact of the 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami on gender and sexual minorities.- Chapter 8 - Disasters, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sex and Gender Communities.- SECTION IV. Doing it for themselves: Queering disaster scholarship, media representations and allyshiz.- Chapter 9 - Calling disaster scholarship in: Towards gender and sexual diverse inclusive research practices.- Chapter 10 - Recognizing queer climate justice.- Chapter 11 - Becoming professional allies: Opportunities to advance SOGIESC inclusion in UK Emergency Management.- SECTION V. No longer an optional extra: Queer-inclusive disaster policies and services.- Chapter 12 -