Under the Ash Cloud : Gender Distinctions in the Resilience of Kemiri Community towards Mount Merapi Volcanic Activity

This study seeks to explore the resilience of the inhabitants of the Indonesian village Kemiri, situated 8 km away from Mount Merapi’s crater. More specifically, it focuses on how gender relations affect people’s resilience towards volcanic eruptions at the community level. While acknowledging the intersectionality with factors such as age, ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, and socioeconomic status when determining vulnerabilities and capacities of communities, the aim of this paper is to examine whether women and men differ in how they experience, respond to, and recover from disasters.