Converging disciplinary understandings of social aspects of resilience

Maclean, Kirsten; Ross, Helen; Cuthill, Michael; Witt, Bradd

doi:10.1080/09640568.2016.1162706

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“…Our contribution is to empirically explore how the concept of emergence from social-ecological systems literature informs understanding of community resilience research, as suggested by authors in the field, such as Davidson (2010), Berkes and Ross (2013), and most recently, Maclean et al (2016).…”

Section: There Are Enough Capable People In the Community Anyway Sommentioning

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Analyzing community resilience as an emergent property of dynamic social-ecological systems

Faulkner¹,

Brown²,

Quinn³

2018

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ABSTRACT. Community resilience is widely promoted so that communities can respond positively to a range of risks, including shocks, extreme events, and other changes. Although much research has identified characteristics or capacities that confer resilience, resilience is more than simply the sum of these. Resilience is an emergent property-the capacities are linked and act together. We present an empirical analysis of five different capacities and assess how interactions between them confer resilience in two coastal communities in Cornwall, UK. These capacities are place attachment, leadership, community cohesion and efficacy, community networks, and knowledge and learning. Based on a survey and focus group discussions, our results show that residents draw on these capacities in different combinations, enabling resilience in diverse ways. This provides a dynamic and socially nuanced perspective on community resilience as process, potentially informing theory and practice of conservation, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and community development.

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Section: There Are Enough Capable People In the Community Anyway Sommentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing community resilience as an emergent property of dynamic social-ecological systems

Faulkner¹,

Brown²,

Quinn³

2018

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111

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“…Mediated by differing protective factors operating around the individual or group, the meaning of resilience and resilience capacity may be specific and unique to the given culture and context at any one time, and those recovering from trauma may show resilience acquisition and maintenance periods, as well as times of fragility (Aburn et al, 2016;Gartland et al, 2011;Herrick, Stall, Goldhammer, Egan, & Mayer, 2014;Herrman et al, 2011;Isaak et al, 2015;Ungar, 2008). Further, because of the dynamic nature of resilience, and the need for it to be inferred from survivors individual/group variations in outcomes following adversity, researchers have not reached any consensus on the practical/operational definition of the concept (Fox et al, 2015;Maclean et al, 2016;Rutter, 2012). It remains vital, however, to recognise that as a means of understanding, developing, and enhancing the healthcare quality, resilience offers a viable approach especially when a clear and succinct definition is agreed upon per given situation (Aburn et al, 2016;Fox et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Concept Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, ascribing an individual as resilient on account of having individual strength and equating resilience to productivity or to having a 'stable trajectory' is problematic. First, it puts weight on the ability to bounce back on the individual/community while negating the larger socio-economical and environmental factors promoting intergenerational trauma (Hollinshead, 2016;Maclean et al, 2016). Second, one's productivity after adversity as doing this can make people at any stage of their healing process feel unworthy if they are not employed or successful (being 'productive') by other means.…”

Section: The Concept Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…exhibited by others faced with similar levels of adversity/challenges (Herrman et al, 2011;Hollinshead, 2016;Maclean et al, 2016;Rutter, 2012;Truffino, 2010). Using the word 'bounce back' loosely has the danger of implying 'elasticity', that after facing adversity one can reorganize and regain the basic structure, ways of functioning, and identity similar to precrisis levels (Fox et al, 2015).…”

Section: The Concept Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…faced with adversity, researchers, healthcare professionals and policy makers have tended to shift emphasis from the risks faced by individuals and their maladaptive responses towards focus on positive outcomes and/or resilience (Maclean, Ross, Cuthill, & Witt, 2016;Rutter, 2012). Beginning with the premise of seeing trauma survivors and other disadvantaged groups of people as 'with promise,' rather than 'already damaged' or 'permanently at risk,' and minimising medicalization of their social problems at the expense of finding the root cause of the problems, may greatly contribute towards improving people's chances of success as new possibilities are envisioned (Fox et al, 2015;HeavyRunner & Marshall, 2003).…”

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'Experience talks, resilience shapes' revisiting historic trauma: impact on treatment in indigenous males living with HIV/AIDS in British Columbia

Chongo¹

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There is an over-representation of HIV incidence, prevalence and mortality rates in the Indigenous population of Canada. Further, many do not adhere to HAART partly because of unresolved historic trauma (HT). Most research on HIV/AIDS therapy has focused on "maladaptive" characteristics of Aboriginal males and less on their adaptive, life-maintaining practices.This study explored the impact of HT on treatment among Indigenous males living with HIV/AIDS in BC, with a focus on adaptive/life maintaining practices, i.e., how the experience of HT positively affects male survivors' ability to adhere to treatment, and the HT impact on treatment outcomes across age groups and residential school survivor status.Using interpretive description incorporating a cultural safety lens as the methodological framework, data was collected through one-to-one interviews, a focus group, and a few Life Story Board sessions. Thirty-six HT survivors told their lived experience stories, discussed how HT affected their adherence to HAART, and explained how they build resilience.Three main themes resulted from data analysis: 1) facilitators of choice or actions leading to HAART adherence; 2) factors leading to HAART non-adherence; and 3) comparative survivor responses on health, services, stigma and the historic trauma effect.Adherence choices and actions are promoted by psychological support, cultural services, religion and spirituality, structural services, resilience, strictness and discipline metered on indirect survivors through their parents. Negative choice or actions resulted from; personal reasons, cultural restrictiveness, lack of structural support and services, spiritual and religionrelated factors, and intergenerational historic trauma effects. Finally, comparative responses of survivors' views noted included the view of health with respect to resilience, availability of and access to services on-and off-reserve, stigma and confidentiality, and the effect of historic iii trauma through generations and across survivor status. The findings demonstrate how complex the experience and expression of HT is and that most Indigenous men can be resilient to stay on HAART and have better health and wellbeing.Cultural-safety informed recommendations are offered to better address HT, improve treatment-adherent behaviour and resilience, foster healing and reduce deaths due to HIV/AIDS. This study suggests promising resilience factors that have implications for both research and practice.iv

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Conceptualizing multilevel research designs of resilience

Thibodeaux

2021

Journal Community Psychology

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Resilience is a broad concept allowing us to understand health and well-being as a multidimensional process that continually grapples with a multitude of stressors. Currently, there are efforts across disciplines and scales to develop this concept of resilience. Unfortunately, individual and community resilience efforts tend to only abstractly conceptualize macroscale dynamics while social-ecological efforts tend to treat individuals and communities as nonindependent components of these macroscale dynamics. Combining these efforts is needed to create a robust dialog around resilience. This paper reviews and synthesizes social-ecological, community, and individual resilience literature by proposing longitudinal, multilevel models of resilience. In developing these models, some of the issues that have prevented synthesizing these literatures are resolved, including generalizability issues, within system variation, and the operationalization of social and natural and micro-and macroscale factors. Three brief examples are presented to elaborate on the utility of the multilevel model of resilience.

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Converging disciplinary understandings of social aspects of resilience

Cited by 24 publications

References 67 publications

Analyzing community resilience as an emergent property of dynamic social-ecological systems

Analyzing community resilience as an emergent property of dynamic social-ecological systems

'Experience talks, resilience shapes' revisiting historic trauma: impact on treatment in indigenous males living with HIV/AIDS in British Columbia

Conceptualizing multilevel research designs of resilience

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