Leadership in disaster resilience emergence, practices, and outcomes
- The Indian Journal of Social Work
- 82(3), Jul, 2021: p.291-314
The understanding of leadership in building disaster resilience is limited. We analyse five cases of disaster resilience initiatives in Western and Northern India. The emergence of leadership was based partially on building a charismatic relationship between leader and follower, leader prototypicality, and leader self-sacrifice. Leadership practices included use of strategic and operational relationship building, culturally based narratives, and a technical solution to problems faced by the community. Leadership outcomes were evaluated based on the extent of routinisation, public recognition, member engagement, leader development, and inclusion. We propose a model to understand the unique aspects of disaster resilience leadership in the Indian context. – Reproduced