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This seminar presentation explores Maegan Miccelli's findings from her fieldwork in Phoenix, Arizona. Her data elucidates that emergency management governance frameworks are ‘transforming’ in the face of extreme heat crises.

The study reveals that this transformation is the result of competing institutional logics that have materialised as emergency management frameworks attempt to overlay traditional crisis response frameworks onto extreme heat governance. Meanwhile, there is an insistence from actors that emphasise the need to address extreme heat vulnerabilities outside a security framework.

These competing logics demonstrate a push and pull between traditional, security-based emergency governance, and juxtaposing vulnerability reduction initiatives; logics that are seemingly at odds with each other. Maegan's thesis explores this emergent juxtaposition and its complex, and potentially transformative, effect on the way extreme heat is governed. 

This seminar is Maegan's mid-term doctoral candidature presentation.

About the speaker

is a doctoral research candidate at the interdisciplinary School of Regulation and Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her ethnographic research focuses on how emergency management networks govern extreme heat and associated vulnerabilities. Maegan is trained as a social scientist and has previously worked with leading Australian researchers and police practitioners on a range of projects examining how police organisations and networks adapt to crises.

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Image credit: Image of extreme heat warning sign at Death Valley, CA, USA, by , from , used under .