ABSTRACT
Constant exposure to crisis presents an opportunity to reconsider crisis management through an emerging application of intersectionality, within a time-sensitive exploration of practices that often reveal catastrophic inequities. This chapter provides new insights and spurs debate with a call for transformation by improving equity in the context of this complex public policy area. Single attributes by themselves do not provide sufficient insight into understanding individuals or groups. Gender or race or ethnicity or socioeconomic strata alone are inadequate; it is the interactions of these intersectional attributes that provide clearer insight into communities, essential to effective crisis management. As a result of better-informed management decisions, we ameliorate social inequities, leading to comprehensive and inclusive preparations for crisis. This chapter presents a visual representation of overlapping and intersectional classifications, articulates how intersectionality can better inform crisis management, and presents a new crisis management model to improve more equitable resiliency outcomes.
