Book contents
- Constructing Crisis
- Constructing Crisis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Undertaking a New Interpretive Effort
- 2 Crisis as a Reification of Urgency
- 3 Advancing the Crisis-as-Event Model
- 4 Problems, Crises, and Contextual Constructionism
- 5 An Objective Description and a Subjective Uh-Oh!
- 6 Believing Claims of Urgency – Or Not
- 7 The Power of a Good (Crisis) Narrative
- 8 To Create Such a Crisis, to Foster Such a Tension
- 9 Beyond Forged-in-Crisis Leadership
- 10 So What?
- References
- Index
5 - An Objective Description and a Subjective Uh-Oh!
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- Constructing Crisis
- Constructing Crisis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Undertaking a New Interpretive Effort
- 2 Crisis as a Reification of Urgency
- 3 Advancing the Crisis-as-Event Model
- 4 Problems, Crises, and Contextual Constructionism
- 5 An Objective Description and a Subjective Uh-Oh!
- 6 Believing Claims of Urgency – Or Not
- 7 The Power of a Good (Crisis) Narrative
- 8 To Create Such a Crisis, to Foster Such a Tension
- 9 Beyond Forged-in-Crisis Leadership
- 10 So What?
- References
- Index
Summary
The crisis-as-claim model assumes that all claims are exercises in power and assertions of interests. Furthermore, the model urges that the intended audience for a claim retain a critical posture. We can and should question the legitimacy of all claims. But questioning, even doubting, is not the same as disparaging or dismissing. We need to find an approach to distinguish legitimacy in a claim. What, exactly, does it mean to say this claim is (or is not) legitimate?
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- Constructing CrisisLeaders, Crises and Claims of Urgency, pp. 81 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019