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Author Lim, Wee Kiat

Title Designing Emergency Management China's Post-SARS Experience, 2003-2012
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (173 p.)
Series China Policy Ser
China Policy Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: designing through distress: creating a new organizational field of emergency management in post-SARS China -- 1 Assembling the theoretical toolkit: conceptualizing the field and its formation -- Sociological institutional theory -- Introducing Foucauldian governmentality -- Connecting institutional theory and Foucauldian studies to social science disaster research -- Conclusion -- 2 Intensive institutionalization (2002-2007)
2002-2003: SARS, the crisis that catalyzed emergency management -- 2004: the "one 'case' three mechanisms" framework -- 2005: releasing the state master plan for emergency response -- 2006: emergency management office established at the state council -- 2007: enacting the national emergency response law -- Conclusion -- 3 Consolidation and stabilization (2008-2012) -- 2008-2009: momentum and consolidation -- 2010-2012: provisional stabilization -- Conclusion -- 4 Risk governance as a framework for emergency management -- The development of risk governance as a framework
Setting the checkpoint earlier: an indigenized risk governance framework -- 5 Taming rivers, saving sheep, and using science: legitimizing claims using cultural knowledge and party-state ideologies -- Insider cultural knowledge -- Party-state ideologies ad nauseam: legitimacy through repetition -- Conclusion -- 6 Governmentalization of emergency management -- The birth of a technique: from administrative regulation to national law -- Applying the governmentality lens to China's emergency management -- Institutional evangelists: perpetuating the field -- Conclusion
7 "Field" work: building a new emergency management in China -- The curatorial function in institutional context -- The role of institutional evangelists -- Theoretical limitations and future research -- Epilogue: going forward -- Appendix: research methods -- Evolution of fieldwork site and data collection strategy -- Improvised fieldwork and data collection strategy -- Coding and analysis -- Methodological limitations -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Emergency management -- China
SARS (Disease) -- China -- Prevention
COVID-19 (Disease)
COVID-19 (Disease)
Emergency management
SARS (Disease) -- Prevention
China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429512407
0429512406
9780429515835
0429515839
9780429519260
0429519265
0429242654
9780429242656