Abstract

This study aims to deepen the understanding of processes that affect collaboration between professions and organisations in the crisis preparedness domain from a gender perspective. A total of twenty-three Swedish duty officers participated in the study. The analysis of the interviews show that collaboration can be understood as (a) the militarisation of civil crisis management actors, which means that many of the work processes and cultures that originate in military organisations can now be found in the security and crisis management sector; (b) the masculinisation, which means that when male dominance appears to prevail, active strategies are used against women, civilian personnel and also inexperienced colleagues and (c) organisational exclusion which emerges particularly in situations where collaboration between female-dominated and male-dominated organisations are required. The findings are important for crisis preparedness research and practice and should work in favour of evening out asymmetries in collaborative crisis management.

摘要

这项研究旨在从性别的角度加深对影响专业和组织之间在危机准备领域的合作的过程的理解。共有23名瑞典值班人员参加了这项研究。对访谈的分析表明，合作可以理解为（a）民间危机管理参与者的军事化，这意味着现在可以在安全和危机管理部门中找到军事组织的许多工作流程和文化；（b）男性化，这意味着当男性占主导地位时，就会采用主动策略对付女性，文职人员以及经验不足的同事，以及（c）组织排斥，这种情况在需要女性主导和男性主导的组织之间进行协作的情况下尤为明显。这些发现对于危机防范研究和实践很重要，应该有助于消除协作危机管理中的不对称现象。