ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on climate disasters in central coastal Vietnam by exploring gender specific and differentiated types of crises, hazards and ramifications inflicted by storms upon people and communities. It explores material collected through the conduction of fieldwork in patrilineally organised Long Lanh, which is located in central coastal Vietnam. The chapter highlights not only informs daily life but even the ways in which various types of crises unfold prior to, during and in the aftermath of storms. Elaine Enarson thus pinpoints more than 20 indicators including low-income status, men’s violence and the need for pre-natal care which render female populations particularly precarious and foster gender specific crises conditions prior to a climate disaster, during the catastrophe and in its aftermath. A crisis can become as a new normalcy in terms of a context of disordered order, which brings ruination and inflicts slow harm upon life worlds, livelihoods and environments in the era of the Anthropocene.
