Ojämlikhet, kris och naturkatastrofer

Böcker och bokkapitel

Bizzarri, Mariangela (2012) “Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Natural and Man-Made Disasters,” in Andrea de Guttry, Marco Gestri and Gabriella Venturini (eds.) International Disaster Response Law, 381-414. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.

Bradshaw, Sarah, Brian Linneker, and Lisa Overton. 2022. “Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability.” In Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation, edited by Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst, 51–67. London: Routledge.

Carmalt, Jean Conolly and Claudine Haenni Dale (2012) “Human rights and disaster,” in Ben Wisner, J.C. Gaillard and Ilan Kelman (eds.) Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction, chapter 16. London: Routledge.

Fassin, Didier. (2025). Crisis as experience and politics. In Helle Rydstrom, Mo Hamza, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, & Vanja Berggren (Eds.), Critical explorations of crisis: Politics, precariousness, and potentialities (pp. 17–22). Bristol University Press.

hooks, bell. (2014). Feminist theory: From margin to center. Routledge. (Original work published 1984). [Assigned reading: “Black women: Shaping feminist theory,” pp. 1–17.]

Marx, Karl. (1875). The critique of the Gotha programme. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha [Assigned reading: 3-page extract.]

Piketty, Thomas (2022) A Brief History of Equality. Harvard: Belknap Press. Translated by Steven Rendall.

Roitman, Janet. (2013). Anti-crisis. Duke University Press.

Wisner, Ben, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, J. C. Gaillard, Ilan Kelman, & Victor Marchezini. (2025). Understanding and addressing disaster risk: Who speaks? Who suffers? Routledge.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. (1792). A vindication of the rights of woman: With strictures on political and moral subjects. [Any edition, e.g., Humboldt Publishing Co., 1982. Assigned reading: Chapters 1–2.]

Artiklar

Adger, W. Neil. (2000). Social and ecological resilience: Are they related? Progress in Human Geography, 24(3), 347–364.

Cederlöf, Gustav. (2025). Disaster risk reduction and the Cuban exception: Infrastructural and ideological power after Hurricane Flora (1963). Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 115(5), 1071–1087.

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.

Fernando, Udan, and Dorothea Hilhorst. 2006. “Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: Tsunami response in Sri Lanka,” Development in Practice, 16 (3&4): 292–302.

Fordham, Maureen (1999) “The Intersection of Gender and Social Class in Disaster: Balancing Resilience and Vulnerability,” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 17(1), 15-36.

Gralepois, Mathilde, Mandy Paauw, Sofia Guevara, & Ann Crabbé. (2024). Overcoming barriers to integrate more justice into climate change policies: Lessons from adaptation policies and flood risk management in Flanders and France. Total Environment Advances, 10, Article 200098.

Hall, Stuart, & Doreen Massey. (2010). Interpreting the crisis. Soundings, 44, 57–71.

Hellberg, Sofie. (2020). Scarcity as a means of governing: Challenging neoliberal hydromentality in the context of the South African drought. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(1), 186–206.

Hesselman, Marlies (2013). Establishing a Full 'Cycle of Protection' for Disaster Victims: Preparedness, Response and Recovery According to Regional and International Human Rights Supervisory Bodies. Tilburg Law Review, 18 (2), 106–132.

Hollenbach, Pia (2013) “Dynamics of multi-local gifts: practices of humanitarian giving in posttsunami Sri Lanka,” Development in Practice, 23(3): 319-331.

Jaga, Ameeta, & Ariane Ollier-Malaterre. (2022). ‘You can’t eat soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, work, family and employment from the Global South. Work, Employment and Society, 36(4), 769–780.

Korf, Benedikt, Shahul Hasbullah, Pia Hollenbach and Bart Klem (2010) “The Gift of Disaster: The Commodification of Good Intentions in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka”, Disasters, 34(S1): S60-S77.

Lewis, James & Ilan Kelman (2012). The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Versus Disaster Risk Creation (DRC). PLoS Currents, 4, https://doi.org/10.1371/4f8d4eaec6af8 

MacKinnon, Danny, & Kate D. Derickson. (2013). From resilience to resourcefulness: A critique of resilience policy and activism. Progress in Human Geography, 37(2), 253–270.

Ruwanpura, Kanchana N., Gustav Cederlöf, & Vasna Ramasar. (2025). Decolonising polycrisis: Southern perspectives on interlocking crises. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 57(6), 697–703.

Schlosberg, David. (2004). Reconceiving environmental justice: Global movements and political theories. Environmental Politics, 13(3), 517–540.

Stirrat, Jock (2008) “Mercenaries, missionaries and misfits: Representations of development personnel”, Critique of Anthropology, 28(4): 406-425.

Sultana, Farhana. (2021). Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: A feminist reading of overlapping crises. Social & Cultural Geography, 22(4), 447–460.

Therborn, Göran. (2012). The killingfields of inequality. International Journal of Health Services, 42(4), 579–589.

Rapporter och övrigt

Göteborg Stad (2023) Jämlikhetsrapporten 2023. Skillnader i livsvillkor och hälsa i Göteborg. Göteborg: Göteborg Stad.

Harvey, David. (2010, August 30). The enigma of capital and the crisis this time. Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey [Blog]. https://davidharvey.org/2010/08/the-enigma-of-capital-and-the-crisis-this-time

Smith, Neil (2006) “There's no such thing as a natural disaster,” Understanding Katrina, Social Science Research Council (USA). items.ssrc.org/understanding-katrina/theres-no-such-thingas-a-natural-disaster.

UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme. (2026). The United Nations World Water Development Report 2026: Water for all people: Equal rights and opportunities (Executive summary). UNESCO. https://doi.org/10.54679/KBGK8241

World Meteorological Organization. (2026). State of the global climate 2025 (WMO-No. 1391). https://library.wmo.int/viewer/69807/download?file=WMO-1391-2025\_en.pdf&type=pdf&navigator=1 [Assigned reading: p. 5, pp. 24–29.]