著者

Takasaki Yoshito

出版者

Taylor & Francis

雑誌

The Journal of development studies (ISSN:00220388)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.1, pp.115-132, 2012-01

被引用文献数

7

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Using original post-disaster household survey data gathered in rural Fiji, this article explores the disaster–gender nexus. Female-headed households are disadvantaged, not because of bias against them in disaster damage or relief, but because of a newly emerging gendered division of labour for dwelling rehabilitation that tightens their constraints on intra-household labour allocation. Female-headed households with damaged dwellings resort to female labour activities connected with informal risk sharing – augmenting production of handicrafts for kava rituals in exchange for male-labour help. Female-headed households without male-adult members resort to such activities more than those with them, because of their distinctly different decision-making processes.

著者

Takasaki Yoshito

出版者

Taylor & Francis

雑誌

The Journal of development studies (ISSN:00220388)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, no.9, pp.1281-1298, 2011-09

被引用文献数

29

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Using original survey data with rich, direct measures of local elites in rural Fiji, this article examines potential elite capture in the allocation of natural disaster reconstruction funds. Allocations of housing construction materials – both receipt and amount received – across villages, clans, and households are strongly targeted on cyclone damage, and local elites do not receive larger benefits over time. As the supply of reconstruction funds is limited during early periods, more severely affected victims do not receive benefits early, while clan leaders and elite clans do receive benefits early within villages.