Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes

In this article, I examine the assumptions underlying idea of women as vulnerable and at risk, how understanding contributes to shaping practices climate change adaptation. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in expert community Dhaka a adaptation field site coastal Bangladesh. Following Ananya Roy’s work, understand Bangladesh be riskscape, geographical space suffused with imaginations anticipated risks that must managed through disaster risk reduction Roy further argues riskscapes create new subjects such are highly gendered because development has tended focus poor ‘in very specific ways’. build insights explore constructed ‘subjects risk’ also show adaptation, becoming buzzword for development, continues ways, which applied fit ‘metacode’. While well-intended, imbued ambivalence, it may contribute supporting structures make by normalizing relations risk.