IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 131: Accountability during Crisis, I: Responses to Epidemics and Severe Weather
Monday 1 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | Institutul de Cercetare, Universitatea din București (ICUB) |
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| Organiser: | Ionuț Epurescu-Pascovici, Secția de Științe umaniste, Institutul de Cercetare, Universitatea din București |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alessandro Silvestri, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Salerno |
| Paper 131-a | The Administration's Response to the Plague and the Reform of Accountability in Savoy, 1348-1351 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration and Social History |
| Paper 131-b | Accountability and Crisis in the Alps: Savoyard Castellans Facing Depopulation around Mont Blanc, Mid-14th to Mid-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Demography and Social History |
| Paper 131-c | Accounting in Times of Severe Weather: How Bureaucracy Reached the Polders in Holland, 1509-1520 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration and Social History |
| Abstract | Questions of personal and collective responsibility are raised with particular poignancy during crisis periods. On the institutional side, the procedures for holding officials accountable and managing resources not infrequently undergo substantial reforms, particularly after the stress test of epidemics, war, and political interregnum revealed systemic dysfunctionalities. More broadly, the drive to accountability is linked to the question of agency, as individuals and communities are blamed for disasters or mobilised in the recovery efforts. This series of sessions explores the transformations in administrative and financial accountability in response to epidemics, war, civic strife, and calamitous weather. |