The Importance of Context-Relevant Feminist Perspectives in Disaster Studies. The Case of a Research on Forest Fires with the Atikamekw First Nation
Publisher: Disaster Prevention and Management
Author(s): Noémie G. Bautista
Date: 2022
Topics: Disasters, Gender
Countries: Canada
My research is a study of forest fires that occurred near the Atikamekw community of Wemotaci (Quebec, Canada). This article focuses on the gendered aspects of two forest fire situations experienced by the people of Wemotaci, as I realized during fieldwork that men and women had different experiences and roles during the fires that did not seem to be valued the same. As a result, I decided to mobilize Indigenous feminist theories to understand the entanglement of multiple oppressions especially colonialism and the patriarchy in disaster situations.