Intersectionality and Crisis Management A Path to Social Equity

Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity aims to embed the social equity discourse into crisis management while exploring the potential of a new tool, the Integrative Crisis Management Model. Leaders and managers navigate a complex and networked environment of policy-making and action, frequently occurring in real time, under constant media exposure. The pervasive availability of this news on all platforms and devices produces a lingering anxiety about the inevitability of danger. Consequently, crisis affords a time-sensitive exploration of management practices and sheds a critical spotlight on deficiencies that may yield novel approaches to doing business. As the book engages contributing authors who are foremost in their field, it also includes practitioners, students, and junior scholars in a creative new discourse about equity. Bringing these diverse voices together in one volume presents a unique opportunity to generate new insights. Intersectionality provides a framework for understanding how categorizations of people drive social constructs of discrimination and oppression. Each chapter covers a different subject – exploring intersectionality in healthcare, nonprofit management, and human resources – and is accompanied by discussion questions. The book provides something for the classroom, for practitioners, and for scholars who want to include more intersectional thinking into their work.

Chapter 1 – Considering Intersectionality and Its Implications for Crisis ManagementHillary J. Knepper, Michelle D. Evans,and Tiffany J. HenleyChapter 2 – Understanding Intersectionality and Vulnerable Populations: A Missing Part in Building Disaster Resilient Communities?Crystal Whetstoneand Fatih DemirozChapter 3 – Intersectionality and Healthcare Management: The Case of Crisisand COVID-19Michelle Silverio, Nora Montalvo-Liendo,and Tony CarrizalesChapter 4 – Women Falling Through the Cracks: Intersectionality During Crisis and Implications for Human Resource ManagementThanh Thi Hoang, Ravin R. Cline,and Meghna SabharwalChapter 5 – Intersectional Disparities During Crisis: Improving Social Equity Through Public and Nonprofit ManagementSchnequa N. Diggs, Rosa Castillo Krewson,and Sean A. MccandlessChapter 6 – The Integrative Crisis Management ModelMichelle D. Evans, Tiffany J. Henley,and Hillary J. Knepper

Hillary J. Knepper is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Pace University, USA. Michelle D. Evans is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. Tiffany J. Henley is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Administration at Pace University, USA.