‘One big team working together’ - Shifting narratives to encourage civic participation and collective action in disaster preparedness

Simple item page
dc.citation.volume118
dc.contributor.authorDas M
dc.contributor.authorBecker J
dc.contributor.authorDoyle EEH
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-13T00:56:44Z
dc.date.available2025-03-13T00:56:44Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-15
dc.description.abstractDisaster risks cannot be reduced by individual efforts alone and necessitate community participation and collective action. However, communicating and encouraging collective action is difficult. Existing studies show that stories and narratives are useful to convey complex less-understood phenomena, like disasters, in a comprehendible and relatable manner. As such, this paper explores existing disaster narratives and aims to understand how they encourage civic participation and collective action for reducing disaster risks. The findings show that the framing of disasters in mass media narratives are unlikely to encourage collective action as they do not emphasize citizen's agency and efficacy in reducing disaster risks. However, in the narratives shared at the local level between emergency management agencies and community members, there is currently a shift towards emphasizing community agency, efficacy, and responsibilities in reducing disaster risks. Four dominant themes are identified in these narratives: reframing the concept of heroes, promoting connection and care, emphasizing collective efficacy and collective responsibility. While the narratives are beneficial, they also cause some tensions, such as, confusion arising from lingering response-centric narratives; frustration around the collective responsibility narratives; and resistance to the current narratives as they are perceived as attempts by emergency management agencies to transfer emergency management responsibilities to people. The implications of the findings and the future directions are presented.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.identifier.citationDas M, Becker J, Doyle EEH. (2025). ‘One big team working together’ - Shifting narratives to encourage civic participation and collective action in disaster preparedness. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 118.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105218
dc.identifier.eissn2212-4209
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn2212-4209
dc.identifier.number105218
dc.identifier.piiS2212420925000421
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/72627
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420925000421
dc.relation.isPartOfInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
dc.rights(c) 2025 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectNarrative
dc.subjectCivic participation
dc.subjectCollective action
dc.subjectDisaster preparedness
dc.subjectDisaster risk reduction
dc.title‘One big team working together’ - Shifting narratives to encourage civic participation and collective action in disaster preparedness
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id499661
pubs.organisational-groupOther
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Thumbnail Image
Name:
499661 PDF.pdf
Size:
3.36 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Evidence
Download
Thumbnail Image
Name:
1-s2.0-S2212420925000421-mmc1.xlsx
Size:
15.4 KB
Format:
Microsoft Excel
Description:
Evidence
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
9.22 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
Collections
Journal Articles