Unit Research Methodology and Techniques for Emergency Management
- Course
- Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security
- Study-unit Code
- A002678
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Uliano Conti
- Teachers
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- Uliano Conti
- Hours
- 72 ore - Uliano Conti
- CFU
- 12
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Academic discipline
- SPS/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course analyzes tools and techniques to know and manage emergencies, with reference to social contexts in which they persist over time,
and with reference to sudden emergency situations.
The method for managing emergencies is presented with reference to how to find information and data
and for their rigorous use.
The course analyzes the ways to use adequate empirical bases in actions for the concrete management of the emergency,
in relation to different phenomena,
in order to develop procedures for combating vulnerabilities and for security. - Reference texts
- Battistelli, F., 2016, La sicurezza e la sua ombra, Donzelli editore
Conti, U. a cura di, 2022, Gentrificazione. Profili e saperi per l'analisi del cambiamento sociale delle città italiane, Franco Angeli, Milano
Conti U. a cura di, Migrazione, donne e diritti. Orizzonti di pace per il mondo contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2021 - Educational objectives
- The objectives concern: understanding the dynamics connected to social emergencies; definition of sources for information and data in emergency situations; understanding of the defining actions of a phenomenon as an emergency; be able to manage and understand different kinds of emergencies.
In particular:
Objectives are the knowledge and understanding of social emergencies; and the main case studies with reference to the Italian case.
Knowledge and understanding applied to the retrieval of information and data and their processing.
Independent judgment on the definition of a phenomenon as an emergency; and the methods of intervention.
Communication skills on communication in emergency situations are also a goal
Ability to learn operational methods to deal with emergencies. - Prerequisites
- knowledge of the methodology of social research
- Teaching methods
- frontal lesson
- Other information
- office hours: after class (tuesday and wednesday) and by appointment (write to: uliano.conti@unipg.it)
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam (and-or on TEAMS)
info for students with disability: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
The exam verifies knowledge on emergency as social phenomenon, and the ability to understand complexity of emergency situations, both with reference to the definition of a phenomenon as an emergency, and with reference to the techniques for managing emergencies of different kinds.
In particular:
The objectives are the knowledge and understanding of social emergencies; and the main case studies with reference to the Italian case.
Knowledge and understanding applied to the retrieval of information and data and their processing.
Independent judgment on the definition of a phenomenon as an emergency; and the methods of intervention.
Communication skills on communication in emergency situations are also a goal
Ability to learn operational methods to deal with emergencies.
In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded. - Extended program
- The course analyzes
different fields of research on emergencies, through procedures for processing information and data.
In the case of emergencies, social changes are read through the main fields of transformation: from climate to terrorism, from migration to demography, the conceptualization of emergency is proposed in a critical way. The critical reading deconstructs the main contemporary themes of risk, emergency and threat. In this perspective, information and data management corresponds to the effort to overcome, through methodological rigor, the media narratives relating to some specific emergencies.