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

会议：灾难恢复期间与幸存者互动的官僚文化、僵化和自由度

• 批准号: 2106046
• 负责人: Katherine Browne
• 金额: $ 3.98万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2106046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Bureaucratic; Cultures; Rigidities; Latitude

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.

人类学家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，由于缺乏一个强有力的理论工具来分析在这种关系中行使和争夺权力的机制，人们对官僚制度如何抑制复苏结果的理解有限。这次会议将召集致力于灾后恢复和备灾问题的科学专家，探讨官僚作风和灾后恢复之间的交集。研讨会扩大了历来在科学界代表性不足的群体的参与。它还将促进制定更有效的方法和途径，传播人类学研究成果，以促进公众对科学和科学进程的了解。会议还为研究生提供了一个培养科学和科学方法的平台。最后，它将制定关于灾害危害和减轻灾害风险的政策建议，并将提交全球减少灾害风险平台。由从业人员和学者组成的网络文化和灾害行动网络收集的初步数据表明，官僚机构中的一些人将制定官僚任务，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名参与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、备灾和恢复以及官僚主义理论等领域推动了人类学科学的发展。它探讨了灾后恢复中的官僚文化，重点是它的文化逻辑、结构功能和支撑其机构任务的规范性假设。研讨会旨在开发一个概念模型，为绘制法律授权、文化规范和官僚机构在处理灾难恢复方面的先例之间的互动提供基础。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。