Risk Management Conceptualizations and Local Management of Risk

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 54, 1317 - 1334, 01.01.2017

Çağrı Topal

Abstract

The organizational literature on risk management conceptualizes risk as a phenomenon, which is objectively analyzable and manageable. Accordingly, any accident, disaster, or crisis risk seems to have a single universal nature, which can be understood by risk experts. Criticizing this risk conceptualization of the literature, this study argues that risk might be differently interpreted and experienced by various social groups. Risk has a local character revealed in the experiences and relationships of individuals and social groups and in their perspectives, which are shaped by those experiences and relationships. This local character is of central importance for the effectiveness of risk management. But, it becomes blurred when the process of analyzing risk is monopolized by risk experts, excluding the participation of local actors and citizens. Therefore, this study emphasizes the local experience of risk and the role of local perspectives in risk management by analyzing the views of the participants in a public hearing on the risks of an oil well, which contains highly toxic gas and is planned to build in a residential area, and related measures

Keywords

risk management, technical-legal knowledge, local knowledge

Risk Yönetim Kavramsallaştırmaları ve Riskin Yerel Yönetimi

Abstract

Örgüt çalışmaları bağlamında risk yönetimini konu edinen yazın, riski nesnel olarak saptanabilir ve yönetilebilir bir olgu olarak görmektedir. Bu durumda, herhangi bir kaza, felaket veya örgütsel kriz riski, evrensel olarak anlaşılabilir ve ancak risk uzmanlarınca tespit edilebilir bir gerçekliğe sahipmiş gibi görünmektedir. Bu çalışma bu eleştirel saptama üzerinden giderek, riskin değişik toplumsal gruplarca farklı şekillerde yorumlanıp tecrübe edilebileceğini iddia etmektedir. Riskler etkiledikleri bireylerin ve toplumsal grupların yaşanmışlıklarında ve ilişkilerinde ve bu yaşanmışlıklarca ve ilişkilerce şekillenen bakış açılarında ortaya çıkan yerel bir karaktere sahiptir. Bu yerellik, risk yönetiminin etkililiği açısından merkezi önemdedir; fakat risk çözümlemesi yalnızca uzmanların katıldığı bir süreç olunca yerellik görünmez kılınmaktadır. Bu çalışma, bir yerleşim yerinde açılmak istenen ve oldukça zehirli bir gaz içeren petrol kuyusunun yarattığı risklerin ve risklere ilişkin önlemlerin tartışıldığı bir kamu inceleme oturumundaki katılımcıların görüşlerini inceleyerek, yerel tecrübenin risk yönetimindeki rolünü vurgulamaktadır

Keywords

risk yönetimi, teknik-yasal bilgi, yerel tecrübe

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