Masculinities, gender equality and crisis management
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Masculinities, gender equality and crisis management
(Routledge key themes in health and society)
Routledge, 2016
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The overarching mission of the rescue services comprises three main areas of responsibility: protection against disasters and accidents; crisis management; and civil defence. This mission covers a long chain of obligations in trying to improve societal prevention capabilities and manage threats, risks, accidents, and disasters concerning generic as well as individual safety. It follows a reactive social chain of threat-risk-crisis-crisis management-care-rehabilitation.
The authors in this book show that the interesting occupational characteristics of these societal duties are their connection to gender and crisis management in a wider sense. Gendered practices, processes, identities, and symbols are analytical lenses that provide a particular understanding and explanatory base that has received far too little attention in the academic literature. This book identifies four major themes in relation to a gendered understanding of the rescue services, and more generally emergency work:
Masculine heroism
Intersectional understandings of sexuality, class, and race
Gender and technology
Gender equality and mainstreaming processes
This book shows how the rescue services constitute a productive ground for contemporary gender studies, including feminist theory, masculinity and sexuality studies. Its critical perspective provides new directions for emergency work and crisis management in a broader sense, and in particular for scholars and practitioners in these areas.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction: masculinities, gender equality, crisis management and the rescue services: contested terrains and challenges, Ulf Mellstroem, Mathias Ericson, Anne-Charlott Callerstig, Katherine Harrison, Kristina Lindholm and Jennie Olofsson
- Masculinity, sexualisation and the proactive turn in the firefighter profession, Mathias Ericson
- Masculinity, emotions and 'communities of relief' among male emergency medical technicians, Morten Kyed
- Masculinities and the dynamics of labour and power in the watch, Sarah O'Connor
- Institutional patriarchy, auto-critique and resilience - a comparative gaze, Dave Baigent
- Stray dogs and women are prohibited in the sentry on the spatial effects of fire fighters' homosocial practices, Jennie Olofsson
- Unpacking the black box of IDA: standardisation and disappearing gender, Katherine Harrison
- Collaboration as a tool for implementing equality politics, Anne-Charlott Callerstig and Kristina Lindholm
- Agents for change? Gender equality efforts in the Swedish rescue services, Ulrika Jansson
- Index.
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