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如何给灾难幸存者带来巨大的痛苦。然而，由于缺乏一个强大的理论工具来分析在这种关系中行使和竞争的权力机制，人们对官僚制度如何抑制恢复结果的理解有限。这次会议将召集致力于灾后恢复和灾后准备问题的科学专家，探讨官僚主义与灾后恢复之间的交集。该研讨会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来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。会议还为培养科学和科学方法方面的研究生提供了一个平台。最后，它将提出关于减轻灾害危害和风险的政策建议，并在全球减少灾害风险平台上提出。文化与灾难行动网络（CADAN）是一个由从业者和学者组成的网络，它收集的初步数据表明，官僚阶层中的一些人会设计官僚命令，以优化幸存者的结果。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体之间的行为变化，以实现这种优化。这14名参与者包括来自学术和专业学科的资深和早期灾害专家以及博士生。该项目推动了环境风险、备灾和灾后恢复以及官僚主义理论等领域的人类学研究。它探讨了灾难恢复中的官僚文化，重点关注其文化逻辑、结构功能和支撑其机构任务的规范性假设。讲习班的目的是建立一个概念模型，为在处理灾难恢复问题时绘制法律任务、文化规范和官僚先例之间的相互作用提供基础。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

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.