@article {2040,
	title = {Bushfire and everyday life: Examining the awareness-action {\textquoteleft}gap{\textquoteright} in changing rural landscapes},
	journal = {Geoforum},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2010},
	month = {10/2010},
	pages = {814 - 825},
	abstract = {<p>In this paper we use the notion of {\textquoteleft}everyday life{\textquoteright} to critically examine an apparent {\textquoteleft}gap{\textquoteright} between bushfire risk awareness and preparedness amongst diverse landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia. Landholders were found to bring their own agency to bushfire preparedness in the relationships between everyday procedures, dilemmas, and tradeoffs. Consequently, regardless of landholders{\textquoteright} awareness levels, attitudes towards bushfire and natural resource management influence if, how, and to what extent landowners prepare for bushfires. We argue that not only is the {\textquoteleft}gap{\textquoteright} complex but also paradoxical in that it is both evident in, and constituted by, landholder attitudes and action and simultaneously dissolved in their practices and decision-making in everyday life. Three dilemmas of everyday life in particular were found to underpin these attitudes: costs (in terms of monetary and time values), gender roles, and priorities. Using a mixed-methods research approach, this simultaneous cultural construction and material nature of bushfire in everyday life is mapped out through landholders{\textquoteright} narratives and actions that embody living with fire on the land. The place of bushfire in landholders{\textquoteright} everyday life has direct relevance to recent international discussions of the vulnerability of the growing number of people living in bushfire-prone rural-urban interface areas.</p>},
	issn = {167185},
	doi = {10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.004},
	author = {Eriksen, Christine and Gill, Nicholas}
}
@article {BF-2431,
	title = {The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia},
	journal = {Journal of Rural Studies},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2010},
	month = {10/2010},
	pages = {332 - 342},
	abstract = {This paper examines gender differences in awareness, preparedness and attitudes towards bushfire amongst landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia. It considers the potential of conceptualising bushfire not as a gender-neutral natural phenomenon but as an important means by which traditional gender roles and power relations within rural landscapes are maintained. Landholders were found to uphold conventional views of bushfire management as {\textquotedblleft}men{\textquoteright}s business{\textquotedblright} despite changing social circumstances. Consequently, key gender differences exist within landholders{\textquoteright} bushfire risk awareness, bushfire knowledge, the perceived need for bushfire preparedness measures, the willingness to perform certain tasks, and the belief in personal capacity to act. We argue that covert and less visible as well as overt gender roles and traditions are important factors in understanding landholders{\textquoteright} engagement with bushfire management. When gendered dimensions of bushfire are investigated in the context of hegemony, a paradox emerges between women choosing not to take control of their own bushfire safety and women being denied the opportunity to take control. The complex and contradictory actions and attitudes to bushfire that materialise through an analysis of gendered social experiences complicate attempts to create more gender-sensitive frameworks for bushfire management. The tenacious and embedded nature of gender role divisions within both public and private spheres was furthermore found to act as economic, social and political stumbling blocks for empowerment opportunities. Using a mixed-methods research approach, this paper maps out gendered dimensions of bushfire through landholders{\textquoteright} narratives and actions. The implications of these dimensions for bushfire management have direct relevance to recent international discussions of the vulnerability of the growing number of people living in bushfire-prone rural{\textendash}urban interface areas.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.06.001},
	author = {Eriksen, Christine and Gill, Nicholas and Head, Lesley}
}
