ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the wider implications of the gendered effects of climate disasters in Pakistan by drawing on reports and interviews from across Pakistan, as well as on fieldwork conducted in the Ahmadpur East tehsil of the Bahawalpur district in Southern Punjab. It looks at situations in which reconstruction efforts, including displacement, have become recurrent and normalised due to reoccurring disasters. The chapter is concerned with how the processes shape and construct gender relations and gendered violence in relation to traumas of reconstructing livelihoods, in the face of resurgence and militarism. While violence perpetrated by strangers can start immediately in crises when people situate themselves in mixed group sites, familial violence is more likely to set in after a time lapse of camp living as the post-humanitarian crisis make people feel compelled to find detrimental coping mechanisms. Gender-based violence becomes a means to acquire resources and deny access of these resources to others.
