Ciudades resilientes y la disputa discursiva de la agenda de reducción de riesgos y desastres

Abstract

Resilience is a concept used to reflect on how to deal with the dynamics that arise after disturbances caused by a natural hazard. It emerges as a key concept for thinking about forms of recovery and reconstruction that seek not only to return to pre-disaster normality, but to question and overcome the vulnerability. Based on the Pecheutian discourse analysis method, the concept of resilient cities is problematized, mobilized as a sign of fictitious capital in the era of financialization of housing and urban space, transforming environmental disasters and the climate crisis into yet another business model. Rescuing the meaning of socio-ecological resilience and articulating it to the theories of socio-spatial practices of resistance and common spaces, it becomes possible to think of resilience to disasters not as a neoliberal category, but as a social, political, and collective practice of adaptation and mitigation to climatic changes.