Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Availability
Open Access Thesis
Keywords
Crisis management--Cross cultural studies; Crisis management--United States; Crisis management--Great Britain; Crisis management--Bangladesh;
Abstract
An inherently managerial commitment, functionalist/positivist theoretical orientation, and Western/U.S. bias characterize the dominant stream of crisis communication research and scholarship in the United States. These characteristics render analysis and assessment of crisis and crisis communication especially in nonWestern settings somewhat limited in scope and coverage. This limitation becomes all the more apparent when crisis is conceptualized as a social phenomenon, not merely an organizational one. Such conceptualization decenters the organization as the sole source of power to initiate crisis response and management, foregrounds the discursive terrain related to a crisis whereby multiple sources compete with their respective realities about the crisis, and thus challenges the dominant organization-centered logic of crisis communication research and scholarship in the U.S.
This thesis presents a postcolonial theory-driven critical discourse analysis of news coverage on the collapse of a multistoried garment factory building in Bangladesh, which killed more than 1,100 people and wounded more than 2,000 others, and its aftermath, by two newspapers each from the United Kingdom, United States, and Bangladesh. The analysis illustrates how (re)conceptualizing crisis as social phenomenon and crisis communication as discourse destabilizes certain taken-for-granted assumptions that undergird the dominant crisis communication scholarship and research in the U.S.
Year of Submission
2017
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Communication Studies
First Advisor
Charles Kyle Rudick, Chair, Thesis Committee
Date Original
2017
Object Description
1 PDF file (vi, 121 pages)
Copyright
©2017 Mir Ashfaquzzaman
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ashfaquzzaman, Mir, "Analyzing Rana Plaza crisis discourse from a postcolonial perspective: Implications for identity and crisis communication studies" (2017). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 471.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/471
