Cultures of Civil Crisis Preparedness

Lærke Høgenhaven and Jonas Toubøl
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Jonas Toubøl: University of Copenhagen

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Abstract: Recent crises, including pandemics, extreme weather events, and humanitarian crises, have demonstrated informal civil society’s role as a crucial first responder to crisis situations. Yet crisis management research and policy have largely treated informal civil society as a spontaneous resource activated only during response and recovery and lack a conceptual understanding of informal civil society in the crisis preparation phase. This article develops a theoretical framework for understanding cultures of civil crisis preparedness: shared repertoires of perceived responsibilities and preparedness strategies through which civil society anticipates and prepares for future crises. The framework specifies how a community's crisis perceptions shape both responsibilities and strategies, how trust networks enable mutual coordination, and how institutional crisis management approaches, geographical exposure, and authorities' crisis communication shape informal civil society's role in preparedness. It thereby enables analysis of how people come to imagine their own and others' responsibilities before crises occur, and why cultures of civil crisis preparedness vary across national and local contexts.

Date: 2026-08-18
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