Making Firefighters Deployable |
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Authors: | Matthew Desmond |
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Institution: | (1) Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 78 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA |
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Abstract: | Although sociologists have devoted a considerable amount of research to exploring high-risk organizations, they have not yet
developed an adequate explanation as to why individuals working within such organizations place themselves in harm’s way and
how organizations ensure they remain there. This article addresses this gap by analyzing how the United States Forest Service
motivates wildland firefighters to participate in life-threatening activity. Drawing on ethnographic research and content
analyses of official documents, it describes the process by which firefighters come to develop a specific disposition towards
risk taking, a disposition through which they view firefighting as an activity void of danger, and how this disposition maintains
its shape, and even grows stronger, after confronting its biggest challenge: the death of a firefighter. |
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