• norsk
    • English
  • English 
    • norsk
    • English
  • Login
View Item 
  •   Home
  • Senter for velferds- og arbeidslivsforskning (SVA)
  • SVA - Consumption Research Norway (SIFO)
  • View Item
  •   Home
  • Senter for velferds- og arbeidslivsforskning (SVA)
  • SVA - Consumption Research Norway (SIFO)
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Coping with blackouts. A practice theory approach to household preparedness

Heidenstrøm, Nina Vatvedt; Kvarnlöf, Linda
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Submitted version
Thumbnail
View/Open
Postprint. Embargo 2019-07-19 (748.7Kb)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10642/6033
Date
2018-06
Metadata
Show full item record
Collections
  • SVA - Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) [151]
Original version
Heidenstrøm N, Kvarnlöf L. Coping with blackouts. A practice theory approach to household preparedness. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 2017;26(4)   http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12191
Abstract
This article focuses on how rural households cope with blackouts caused by winter storms. We approach the concept of household preparedness using a practice theory perspective, and argue that household preparedness is mundanely preformed as part of already existing everyday practices. Thus, this is a retrospective study of how household preparedness was performed in actual crises. The data material consists of at home interviews with 14 households and 26 interviewees from Norway and Sweden. The results demonstrate that households cope with blackouts by activating and mobilising competences, meanings and materials belonging to different practices, and that they do so in an interwoven ongoing process that ensures continuation of everyday life during disruption. The article concludes by arguing for the need to bring forward studies on informal preparedness activities, in a research field where household preparedness tends to be framed using a top-down and formalized perspective on crisis preparedness and management.
Publisher
Wiley
Series
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management;Volume 26, Issue 2
Journal
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit
 

 

Browse

ArchiveCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournalsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsDocument TypesJournals

My Account

Login

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

Contact Us | Send Feedback

Privacy policy
DSpace software copyright © 2002-2019  DuraSpace

Service from  Unit