Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises

“
Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises
is a timely collection that addresses the scant attention given to gender and sexually diverse people in disaster research, policy, and practice. The book is presented as a founding contribution to the emerging field of queer disaster studies … .
Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises
is an important, agenda-setting collection and a significant step in building queer disaster studies.” (Tegan Larin and Meagan Tyler, Journal of Sociology, July 22, 2026)

Dale Dominey-Howes (he/him) is Professor of Hazard and Disaster Risk Sciences at the Sydney Environment Institute and School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Ashleigh Rushton (she/her) is a Disaster and Emergency Management Researcher and Planner, UK.

William Leonard  (he/him) is Adjunct Research Fellow with Monash University, Disaster and Resilience Initiative (MUDRI), Australia and an independent Social Policy and Diversity consultant.

Marcilyn Cianfarani  (she/they) is a queer Disaster and Emergency Management practitioner, working for Health Canada.

Lisa Overton  (she/her-they/them) is a queer feminist academic working on intersectionalities linked to gendered-sexualities, crisis and disaster at Middlesex University, UK.

Haorui Wu (he/him) is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University, Canada, the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Resilience (Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction) and the Director of the Building A Culture of Resilience Lab.