ABSTRACT
This chapter draws from ongoing research to highlight questions about male youth and the complexity and diversity of their post-disaster experiences in Canada and the United States. It reviews relevant literature and introducing the Youth Creating Disaster Recovery and Resilience (YCDR2) project, a cross-cultural research study that it draw from to support this discussion. Through the voices of youth participants in the YCDR2 study, it illustrate the ways that male youth may follow and deviate from traditional gendered roles, emotional expression and coping behaviors. It heard many stories from male youth in Canada and the United States that were both consistent with the typical gender roles of men, such as engaging in physical labor, as well as stories about them stepping into caretaking alongside their female peers. Although our findings did not explore this complexity, it is important to acknowledge that these youth also differ by race, class, social location, developmental capacity, sexuality and other significant identities.
