Responsibilisation in disaster management: Earthquake, Covid, narratives, counter narratives, social dramas, and social policies

Mustafa Ozbilgin - Professor at Brunel University of London. This seminar is reserved to the Department of Management

  • Date: 26 April 2023 from 13:00 to 14:00

  • Event location: On line (Teams) and live in Aula Seminari 1, via Capo di Lucca 34, Bologna

We have seen that the old deal between humans, nature and technology is deteriorating due to flawed assumptions on which it is built. Using policy responses to covid pandemic and earthquakes as cases we examine what happened to the deal between humans, nature and technology.

Through a dramaturgical approach we question responsibilisation in disaster management. The Covid pandemic has been managed with patchy international success due to highly variable scientific narratives that shaped national health policies.

On February 6th, 2023, two major earthquakes occurred in the Pazarcık and Elbistan districts of Kahramanmaraş in southeastern Turkey. The loss of life and property due to the effects of the February 6th earthquakes demonstrates Turkey’s need for inclusive disaster management and social policies.

This study examines post-earthquake disaster management and social policies through narrative analysis. Using a social dramaturgy approach, we evaluate dominant- and counter-narratives to offer recommendations for inclusive, fair, and sustainable disaster management and social policies. We identify misguided narratives that influence social policies and provide evidence-based, ethical, and inclusive analysis to help redesign a new deal and reconsider responsibilisation in social policies of disaster management.

These are the two papers that inform the seminar (the first one is in English, the other has an extended abstract in English, although the full paper is in Turkish):
https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-069940.abstract 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368756853_Afet_Yonetiminde_Sorumlulugun_Yeniden_Insasi_Deprem_Sosyal_Dramalar_Sosyal_Politikalar

Mustafa F. Özbilgin is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London. He also holds two international positions: Co-Chaire Management et Diversité at Université Paris Dauphine and Visiting Professor of Management at Koç University in Istanbul.

His research focuses on workplace equality, diversity and inclusion from comparative and relational perspectives.  He has conducted field studies in the UK and internationally, and his work is empirically grounded. His research is supported by international and national grants from the ESRC,  EPSRC, EU Horizon2020, CIPD, ACE, ACCA, and British Academy. His work focuses on changing policy and practice regarding workplace equality and diversity. He is an engaged scholar, driven by values of workplace democracy, equality for all, and humanisation of work.

He has authored and edited more than 20 books and published over 200 papers in academic journals such as the British Medical Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Gender Work and Organization, and Social Science and Medicine, among others.

He has conducted research, consultancy and training at a large number of organisations, including the House of Commons, Barclays Bank, The Bank West Australia, Google, Halifax, the CIPD, the National Health Service, the NHS Employers, L'Oreal, Tesco, the Probation Services, The UK Fire Service, the Economist Research Unit, the OECD, the WRVS, DTI, Rio Tinto, PwC, Linklaters and ACCA.He served as the editor-in-chief of the European Management Review (EMR), the official journal of the European Academy of Management (EURAM), from 2014 to 2018 and as the editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Management, the official journal of the British Academy of Management, for four years from 2010 to 2014.

He is currently serving on the editorial boards of over 20 journals internationally.

He currently holds the following editorial roles:

Book Series Editor:

Equality Diversity and Inclusion: international perspectives (Emerald Press)

Associate editor:

Frontiers in Psychology

Frontiers in Sociology

Member of the Editorial Board:

Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE)

British Journal of Management

Journal of Management Studies

Equality Diversity and Inclusion: an International Journal (Emerald Press)

He served as the editor-in-chief of the journal, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international journal (Emerald Press) between 2006 and 2010.

He is the founder of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: an international conference (EDI).

The seminar will be held in English.

Major information: Francesco Maria Barbini (francesco.barbini@unibo.it)