Feminist approaches to situated knowledge production: Urban flood management in Can Tho City, Vietnam

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCan Tho Universityen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeAsian Mega-Deltasen_US
cg.coverage.countryVietnamen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2VNen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierNozomi Kawarazuka: 0000-0002-7806-1247en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-23673-0.00009-xen_US
cg.isbn9780443236730en_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.river.basinMEKONGen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No povertyen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible consumption and productionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
dc.contributor.authorLy Quoc Dangen_US
dc.contributor.authorKawarazuka, Nozomien_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-31T20:08:27Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-12-31T20:08:27Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168454en_US
dc.titleFeminist approaches to situated knowledge production: Urban flood management in Can Tho City, Vietnamen_US
dcterms.abstractThe main objective of this chapter is to identify and understand how women use knowledge about flooding as a tool for agency and empowerment. The concept we use is women’s empowerment linked to women’s agency and their situated knowledge during floods. These concepts are applied through the intersection of gender, class, age, and disability. Qualitative data collection included a household survey, in-depth interviews with women and relevant actors, and participant observation. We found that women were able to leverage their knowledge to reshape flood outcomes. Women who were successful in this regard used knowledge areas such as learning from their own experience and others and mobilizing resources through social networks to achieve their goals. During the floods, their concerns and experiences are closely related to their gender roles and responsibilities in childcare and housework. Women coped well with caring for their children and doing housework, among other productive and reproductive activities. Another experience is related to their bodies, and the women expressed the 13 different emotional feelings they used to negotiate with their husbands, relatives, neighbors, local authorities, and others to reduce flood risks and address flood situations. The last experience was related to their role in household financial management. Women were the ones who saved, loaned, and borrowed money from different people to contribute to flood management. Regarding the participation of women in social networks, we found that women engaged and proposed new technical solutions to reduce the risks of flooding disasters through negotiations with their friends, neighbors, relatives, and other community members. In addition, they used different social networks to communicate to obtain information related to flood risks and management. Among the women who participated in this research, older and disabled women were more marginalized and less able to overcome flooding than other women due to their physical limitations and lower levels of social and family support. These women have a risk of being further marginalized through increasing climate-induced disasters. Specific policies and development programs are therefore required to help empower these most vulnerable women.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audienceDonorsen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.available2024-11-15en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLy Q.D., Kawarazuka, N. Chapter 9 - Feminist approaches to situated knowledge production: urban flood management in Can Tho City, Vietnam, Editor(s): Edward Park, Ho Huu Loc, Dung Duc Tran, In Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Series, The Mekong Delta Environmental Research Guidebook, Elsevier, 2025, Pages 231-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-23673-0.00009-Xen_US
dcterms.extent231-259en_US
dcterms.issued2025en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.subjectgender-responsive approachesen_US
dcterms.subjectknowledgeen_US
dcterms.subjecturban areasen_US
dcterms.subjectflood controlen_US
dcterms.typeBook Chapteren_US

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