[02/24] Dr Ruszczyk, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) was invited to speak about her Gender and Resilience in the City book at Reading University.
Dr Hanna Ruszczyk talked about her book and how it highlights the importance of attending to gender (not only women) in policy efforts. It explores two gendered groups that function on a neighbourhood level: mothers' groups and neighbourhood groups. Mothers’ groups provide invisible community resilience in the form of social infrastructures. They experience slow violence by patriarchal power structures that will not allow them to be more than resilient. Meanwhile, by participating in neighbourhood groups, certain men (particularly high caste and affluent ones) are allowed to rework the urban and fulfil their aspirations for physical infrastructure in the form of paved roads in a new state-grey space controlled by the local authority.
The event was organised by Dr Sophie Blackburn from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.
You can keep up to date with Dr Ruszczyk on her personal website.
Photo credit: Ruszczyk, H 2024
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