(Gendered) resilience in community-based natural resource management in fragile and conflict-affected settings

Abstract

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Resilience, gender, and conflict: thinking about resilience in a multidimensional way

“…Combining insights from IR and political ecology, Ryan (2022) comes to similar conclusions about the potential and pitfalls of the gender-resilience nexus. Her findings show how conflict prevention initiatives on natural resource management (NRM) have become shaped by the same resilience logic that has colonised other international agendas such as peacebuilding, disaster management, and climate change mitigation.…”

“…Two of the contributions focus specifically on the emergence of the genderresilience nexus in international discourses regarding peacebuilding (Aggestam and Eitrem Holmgren 2022) and natural resource management (Ryan 2022). Both articles find that the adoption of a resilience perspective by international agencies and donors is potentially transformative but that this promise has failed to fully materialise.…”

“…Resilience is here often believed to be a set of qualities that an individual may possess, and international and national programs will seek to build upon to improve and strengthen the resilience of individuals. This is a logic of resilience that several international organisations have been eager to rely on (see Ryan 2022;Aggestam and Eitrem Holmgren 2022). Several scholars have criticised this application (or instrumentalisation) of resilience, notably underscoring the consequences of rendering the individual apolitical.…”

“…While gender inequality and gendered norms constrain the range of women's responses to conflicts and crises, there is still room for agency in the form of adaptation or resistance as illustrated by some of the articles (see Gitau 2022;Berry 2022). On the other hand, the Special Issue offers a variety of feminist attempts to understand, in a contextualised and critical way, the way gender relations are shaped and re-shaped by the emergence and diffusion of international discourses of resilience (see Aggestam and Eitrem Holmgren 2022) and the extent to which these discourses are adopted, adapted or resisted at the local level (Berry 2022;Bargués-Pedreny and Martin de Almagro 2022;Ryan 2022). In this way, the contributions to the Special Issue seek to capture the impact of resilience discourses at different levels (global, national, local) and responses to them from a gender perspective.…”

“…In other cases, what is studied is the resilience of gender relations themselves; in other words, the way gender relations (understood in terms of gender regimes or patriarchy) adapt or intensify in the context of armed conflict (see Gitau 2022). Several of the articles also highlight how gender interacts with other forms of inequality and difference (class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age), and the intersectional effects of internationally-led resilience initiatives (for instance, Ryan 2022).…”