Conference: Bureaucratic Cultures, Rigidities, and Latitude in Interactions with Survivors During Disaster Recovery

人类学家已经记录了不对称的关系是如何给灾难幸存者带来巨大痛苦的。然而，在缺乏一个强大的理论工具来分析在这种关系中行使和争夺权力的机制，对官僚制度如何抑制复苏结果的理解有限。这次会议将召集研究灾后恢复和备灾问题的科学专家，探讨官僚机构与灾后恢复之间的交叉点。讲习班扩大了历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与。它还将促进发展更有效的方法和途径，传播人类学研究的结果，以促进公众对科学和科学进程的了解。会议还为科学和科学方法研究生的培养提供了一个平台。最后，它将制定关于减轻灾害危害和风险的政策建议，并将在全球减少灾害风险平台上提出。文化和灾害行动网络（CADAN）收集的初步数据显示，官僚体系中的一些人将设计官僚授权，以优化幸存者的成果。这个为期三天的研讨会旨在更清楚地了解哪些变量有助于官僚行为者的行为变化，以实现这种优化。14名与会者包括知名和早期灾害专家以及来自一系列学术和专业学科的博士生。该项目在环境风险、灾害准备和恢复以及官僚主义理论等领域推进人类学科学。它探讨了灾后恢复中的官僚文化，重点是其文化逻辑，结构功能，以及作为其机构任务基础的规范性假设。该研讨会的目的是开发一个概念模型，为绘制法律的授权，文化规范和官僚先例之间的相互作用提供基础，以解决灾难恢复。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Anthropologists have documented how asymmetrical relationships produce great suffering for disaster survivors. Yet, in the absence of a robust theoretical apparatus for analyzing the mechanisms of power exercised and contested in such relationships, there is limited understanding of how bureaucratic systems may inhibit recovery outcomes. This conference would convene scientific specialists working on issues of disaster recovery and preparedness to explore the intersection between bureaucracy and disaster recovery. The workshop broadens the participation of groups historically underrepresented in science. It will also facilitate the development of more effective methodologies and avenues for the dissemination of findings from anthropological research to promote public understanding of science and the scientific process. The conference also provides a platform for the training of graduate students in science and the scientific method. Finally, it will create policy recommendations on harm and risk mitigation from disasters that will be presented at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction.Preliminary data collected by the Culture and Disaster Action Network (CADAN), a network of practitioners and academics, demonstrate that some individuals within bureaucratic hierarchies will engineer bureaucratic mandates to optimize outcomes for survivors. This three-day workshop aims to develop a clearer sense of what variables contribute to behavioral changes among bureaucratic actors oriented to such optimization. The fourteen participants include established and early disaster experts as well as doctoral students from a range a scholarly and professional disciplines. The project advances anthropological science in the areas of environmental risk, disaster preparedness and recovery, and theories of bureaucracy. It explores bureaucratic culture in disaster recovery, with a focus on its cultural logics, structural functions, and the normative assumptions that underpin its institutional mandates. The workshop aims to develop a conceptual model to provide a foundation for mapping the interactions between legal mandates, cultural norms, and bureaucratic precedent in addressing disaster recovery.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.