Empowered Stakeholders: Female University Students’ Leadership During the COVID-19-Triggered On-campus Evictions in Canada and the United States  

作　　者：Haorui Wu Marla Perez-Lugo Cecilio Ortiz Garcia Frances Gonzalez Crespo Adriana Castillo 

机构地区：[1]Canada Research Chair in Resilience,School of Social Work,Dalhousie University,Halifax,NS,B3H 4R2,Canada [2]Natural Hazards Center,University of Colorado Boulder,Boulder,CO,80309,USA [3]Department of Social Sciences,University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez,Mayagüez,PR,00682,USA [4]The RISE Network,Mayagüez,PR,00680,USA

出　　处：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》2021年第4期581-592,共12页国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）

基　　金：This research was supported by the Quick Response program in the Natural Hazards Center,at the University of Colorado Boulder;The Quick Response program is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation(NSF)(Award#1635593);This research was also undertaken,in part,thanks to funding from the Canada Research Chairs Program(Award#950-232880).

摘　　要：The study of disaster-specific leadership of female university students has been largely neglected,especially during on-campus emergency eviction and evacuation.Based on the COVID-19-triggered,on-campus evictions across Canada and the United States,this cross-national partnership examined the out-of-province/state and international female university students’leadership during the entire eviction process.Through in-depth interviews,this study revealed the female university students’leadership behaviors during three stages:(1)pre-eviction:their self-preparedness formed an emotional foundation to support others;(2)peri-eviction:their attitude and leadership behavior enabled them to facilitate(psychologically and physically)their peers’eviction process;and(3)post-eviction:they continued to support their peers virtually and raised the general public’s awareness regarding the plight of vulnerable and marginalized populations.This article argues that the female university students’leadership that emerged during the eviction process became complementary to and even augmented the universities’official efforts and beyond.This leadership represents empirical evidence that contributes to the existing literature on gender and leadership by demonstrating female youth as empowered stakeholders rather than as merely passive victims.Future studies could develop detailed stratification of gender and age dimensions in order to portray a more comprehensive picture of the younger generation’s leadership in hazards and disaster research and practice.

关 键 词：CANADA COVID-19 Female leadership Gender and disaster On-campus evictions United States University students 

分 类 号：C913.68[经济管理] C933.4[社会学] X4[环境科学与工程—灾害防治]