Exploring agency beyond humans: the compatibility of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and resilience thinking

Dwiartama, Angga; Rosin, Christopher

doi:10.5751/es-06805-190328

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“…For example, Callon (1986), Law and Lien (2013) and Moore (2012) have shown how the choreographies of human-animal interactions are formative of how fisheries and aquaculture are performed. According to Dwiartama and Rosin (2014), extending agency to 'nonhumans' allows for understanding (social) resilience as the result of the contingent and unpatterned interactions among humans and the material components that make human relationality possible, and durable. Taking in this insight, a study of community resilience becomes an exploration of how (human and non-human) actors associate into community-networks that endure.…”

Section: Community As Performative Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These accounts have in common that they make no prior distinction between a 'social' and 'ecological' realm, but instead follow and describe relations between a wide array of elements (such as fish, sounds, spirits, vaccines and slippery surfaces) to explore how maritime networks (or worlds, assemblages) of relations come about, persist, or are resisted. Dwiartama and Rosin (2014) have indicated the relevance of a relational (ANT) approach to the reconceptualisation of resilience: It allows for empirically exploring how networked forms of resilience come about and what kind of (human or non-human) actors participate in the process.…”

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Community as network: exploring a relational approach to social resilience in coastal Indonesia

Pauwelussen

2016

Maritime Studies

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The concept of social resilience thrives in studies and policies of fisheries and marine conservation. Associated with the ability of communities to adapt to change, it has spurred debates on social organisation for resilience. Considering its proliferation in maritime studies, the concept of social resilience requires a critical reflection on the ontological assumptions of 'social' and 'community' that undergirds the concept, in particular the idea that communities are place-based. Following a relational ontological approach, this article proposes to explore community as performative network of human and non-human relations acted out in practice. Drawing on insights from ethnographic research in a coastal region in Indonesia, I illustrate the performance of community networks beyond the local scale and how they sustain through the association of social and material elements. These trans-local communities have resisted conservationists' attempts to create resilient (place-based) fishing communities in the region to impede illegal fishing. The case illustrates how a relational approach helps to illuminate what social resilience in a maritime context means in practice. The article aims to contribute to critical social resilience scholarship in maritime studies by drawing out how we may think and explore 'social' and 'community' otherwise and the implications this has for how we look for resilience.

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Section: Community As Performative Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Community as network: exploring a relational approach to social resilience in coastal Indonesia

Pauwelussen

2016

Maritime Studies

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“…Individual indicators may not be as relevant for policy making as composite indicators presented explicitly in the DPSIR framework (Mace & Baillie 2007). Composite indicators with explicit links to driving forces, pressures, state, impacts, and responses can develop a coherent story about social or environmental change and resilience better than isolated indicators (Sparks et al 2011, Layke et al 2012, Reyers et al 2013, Dwiartama & Rosin 2014.…”

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Assessing the resilient provision of ecosystem services by social-ecological systems: introduction and theory

Sarkki¹,

Ficko²,

Wielgolaski³

et al. 2017

Clim. Res.

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The concepts of resilience and ecosystem services broaden the opportunities for assessing sustainability of social-ecological systems (SESs). The lack of operational frameworks for assessing the resilient provision of ecosystem services by SESs impedes greater integration of resilience thinking in natural resource governance. The greatest challenge so far has been to understand the capacity of the SES to (re)organize itself and sustain the flow of benefits from nature to people under various global and local pressures and trade-offs between ecosystem services users. To assess the resilience of an SES within a single framework, we propose a new approach which is a combination of: (1) the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework; (2) social-ecological indicators; and (3) scenario building. Practical application of the approach is demonstrated with the example of European polar and altitudinal treeline areas. The DPSIR framework analyzes causal relationships between the components of the SES. Social-ecological indicators quantify processes in the SES and estimate trends in the DPSIR factors. Combined top-down and bottom-up scenarios envision plausible development paths of the SES in the future based on expected global environmental and social changes which create context specific dynamics between DPSIR factors at specific localities. The proposed approach represents the analytical framework of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action SENSFOR (Enhancing the resilience capacity of SENSitive mountain FORest ecosystems under environmental change) and can be applied to promote systemic resilience thinking in any SES.

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“…To date, the application of ANT within resilience studies has been limited. Two notable exceptions are Zimmerer's (2011) case study of spate irrigation in the Bolivian Andes, and Dwiartama and Rosin's (2014) use of ANT approaches to understand the resilience of Indonesian rice and New Zealand kiwifruit crop production systems.…”

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Probing the interfaces between the social sciences and social-ecological resilience: insights from integrative and hybrid perspectives in the social sciences

Stone-Jovicich¹

2015

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Social scientists, and scholars in related interdisciplinary fields, have critiqued resilience thinking's oversimplification of social dimensions of coupled social-ecological systems. Resilience scholars have countered with "where is the ecology" in social analyses? My aim is to contribute to current efforts to strengthen inter-and transdisciplinary debate and inquiry between the social-ecological resilience community and the social sciences. I synthesize three social science perspectives, which stress the complex, dynamic, and multiscalar interconnections between the biophysical and social realms in explaining social-environmental change, and which place both the social and ecology centre stage in their analyses: materio-spatial world systems analysis, critical realist political ecology, and actor-network theory. By integrating, in a nondeterministic and nonessentialist manner, the biophysical environment into social inquiries (integrative approaches) or by altogether abolishing the ecology/nature and human/culture divide (hybrid perspectives), these three social-science perspectives are well placed to foster stronger inter-and transdisciplinary ties with social-ecological resilience. Materiospatial world systems analysis is highly compatible with resilience thinking. The emphasis on world systems structures and processes offers the potential to enrich resilience analyses of global environmental change, global governance and stewardship, planetary boundaries, and multiscale resilience. Critical realist political ecology offers avenues for more in-depth interdisciplinary inquiries around local/traditional/indigenous knowledge systems and power. It also challenges resilience scholars to incorporate critical analyses of resilience's core concepts and practices. Actor-network theory proposes a very different starting point for understanding and assessing social-ecological resilience. Its focus on "resilience-in-the-making" offers unique insights but also pushes the conceptual boundaries of resilience thinking.

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Exploring agency beyond humans: the compatibility of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and resilience thinking

Cited by 112 publications

References 33 publications

Community as network: exploring a relational approach to social resilience in coastal Indonesia

Community as network: exploring a relational approach to social resilience in coastal Indonesia

Assessing the resilient provision of ecosystem services by social-ecological systems: introduction and theory

Probing the interfaces between the social sciences and social-ecological resilience: insights from integrative and hybrid perspectives in the social sciences

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