“…The final three papers each emerge from a large-scale project called 'PeaceTalk' that studies talk and interaction in multinational crisis management training involving both civilian and military personnel (see Haddington et al, 2020;Haddington et al 2021;Rautiainen 2021;). The project collaborates closely with FINCENT (Finnish Defence Forces International Centre) and CMC Finland (Crisis Management Centre Finland).…”
“…The final three papers each emerge from a large-scale project called 'PeaceTalk' that studies talk and interaction in multinational crisis management training involving both civilian and military personnel (see Haddington et al, 2020;Haddington et al 2021;Rautiainen 2021;). The project collaborates closely with FINCENT (Finnish Defence Forces International Centre) and CMC Finland (Crisis Management Centre Finland).…”
“…It takes as its distinctive phenomenon members’ methods of practical reasoning and practical action in everyday and specialized social settings ( Livingston, 1987 ; Lynch, 1993 ), and the organization of talk-in-interaction ( Schegloff, 2007 ). For more recent developments, see, e.g., Button et al, 2022 ; Maynard and Heritage, 2022 ; Haddington et al, 2023 ; Sormani and vom Lehn, 2023 .…”
This article proposes that social change, a fundamental topic in sociological theory, can be productively revisited by attending to studies in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM/CA). We argue that the corpus of EM/CA research, from the 1960s until the present day, provides details of the constitutive and identifying aspects of practices and activities that gradually transform into descriptions of obsolescent practices and activities, and that this corpus can be revisited to learn about the ways people used to do things. Taking landline and mobile telephony as a case in point, we show that the subtle details of conversational practices are anchored in the technology used as part of the contemporary lifeworld, and that they stand for the particularities of routine social structures of their time period. We also discuss the temporal aspects of the competences required on the part of members and analysts to make sense of encountered practices in terms of their ordinary recognizability and interactional consequentiality, pointing to the anchoring of social life in its historical time. Finally, we conclude by considering different ways of respecifying social change by attending to various kinds of historicity and obsolescence of social praxis.
In recent years, there has been an increase in critical situations such as crisis and disasters in Germany. Due to the country's low-crisis history and the predominance of blue-light organizations like the police and fire departments in managing disasters, these circumstances affect other organizations, such as public administrations, that have had less contact with crisis management, sometimes unexpectedly. This is illustrated by examples such as the refugee situation in 2015/2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic. One way to prepare is through exercises in crisis management and, more specifically, staff work. The demand for these therefore also seems to be increasing in administrations. This article presents an evaluation approach for such exercises based on an example of a staff exercise in Germany. It describes the developed evaluation approach, discusses some exemplary results in relation to the topic of communication and the potential of a partially standardized evaluation. Finally, the article discusses the extent to which a multi-method approach to exercise evaluation, which works with a standard framework but also leaves scope for individual adaptation, contains practical and scientific added values.
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