Hidden transcripts of resilience: power and politics in Jamaican disaster management

Grove, Kevin

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“…Not only that, but nature has also been re-417 formed by human intervention in the "anthropocene" (Crutzen, 2000). Critically, this has allowed 418 paradigms of risk management to be produced that use the 'empowerment' of citizens to neutralise 419 them as a threat as they become "governable" (Pugh, 2014;Grove, 2013), sometimes through 420 insurance (e.g. Collier, 2014).…”

Section: Governance and Governmentality In Disastersmentioning

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Geopower

Donovan

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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3 This paper discusses disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the context of emerging geographical ideas 4 about topologies and assemblages. It focusses on the role of expert advice in DRR and the resulting 5 political and epistemological issues. The critical geography of disasters still struggles to communicate 6 with persistent scientific technical-rational approaches to hazard assessment. Furthermore, recent 7 studies have shown the potential for expert advice to be (mis)used for political purposes. 8Assemblage theory might be useful in opening up this hybrid area of research, as it allows a nuanced 9 view of disasters and DRR that can incorporate complex human-environmental relationships and 10 diverse knowledges. 11 are often present in human-versus-physical approaches to disasters (e.g. Gaillard and Mercer, 2013; 20 Hewitt, 1983 20 Hewitt, , 2013. Furthermore, the increased emphasis on scientific advice in the Sendai 21Framework for DRR 2015-2030 provides an important opportunity for geographers to interrogate 22 the interface between science and policy in disasters, alongside human geographical approaches to 23 vulnerability and transformation (e.g. Pelling, 2003(e.g. Pelling, , 2010Cutter, 2003). 24 This paper is highly interdisciplinary and is necessarily broad as a result. It does not aim to explore in 25 detail all of the issues that it raises, but to provide an overview of emerging themes across a range of 26 geographical literature. It is necessarily synoptic and theoretical in its approach. Initially, the paper 27 discusses recent debates in DRR research and places them in a critical geographical context related 28 to broad ideas of risk, knowledge and power. The following sections establish the theoretical 29 framework within which the paper works, elucidating first assemblage theory and then geopower. 30Finally, six interlocking dimensions of the DRR assemblage are examined, to illustrate the human-31 natural flows of power and knowledge (geopower) that reverberate through the DRR assemblage, 32 and to provide a broad framework for future research. 33 II Challenges, controversies and categories in DRR 34Disaster risk reduction (DRR) research has explicitly distanced itself from a "technical-rational" 35 model of disasters (White, 1945;Hewitt, 1983;Wisner et al., 2004Wisner et al., , 2012. It has applied the concepts 36 of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience to provide insights into the process of disaster risk 37 reduction -and produced many critiques of these concepts (e.g.

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Section: Governance and Governmentality In Disastersmentioning

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“…Recent work suggests that power and geopolitics are important aspects of disasters and indeed 671 preparation (Grove, 2010(Grove, , 2013(Grove, , 2014Kelman, 2006;Giroux, 2007)…”

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Geopower

Donovan

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Even definitions that go beyond the engineering perspective, such as ecological/ecosystem resilience, and social-ecological definitions, ignore the role of collective action to address problems of reconstruction or fail to factor-in the disempowerment of local institutions to intervene on behalf of its affected and poor communities. Grove (2013aGrove ( , 2013b and Walker and Cooper (2011) bring power relations to the forefront of their post-disaster reconstruction critiques, tracing the genealogy of resilience in post-colonial contexts to show that "cultures of safety" (i.e., cultures or preparedness) may function as ideologies (or "assemblages") of power normalization and control to modify and regulate collective action.…”

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Decolonizing Resilience: The Case of Reconstructing the Coffee Region of Puerto Rico After Hurricanes Irma and Maria

Borges-Méndez

Caron

2019

J. of Extr. Even.

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The term resilience has saliency in the scholarship and policy on post-disaster management and disaster-risk reduction. In this paper, we assess the use of resilience as a concept for post-disaster reconstruction in Puerto Rico and offer a critique of the standard definition. This critique focuses on the primacy of Puerto Rico’s colonial relations with the United States meshed with decades of political mismanagement of the island’s economic and natural resources by local authorities and political parties. For resilience to be a useful conceptual device, we argue for decolonizing resilience and show the relevance of such an argument through a case study of the island’s coffee-growing region. Decolonizing resilience exposes power inequities and the individuating nature of post-disaster reconstruction to illustrate how collective action and direct participation of local actors and communities carves out autonomous spaces of engagement. Decolonizing resilience necessitates a contextualized analysis of resilience, taking into account “the politics of resilience” embedded in the island’s colonial history and the policy bottlenecks it creates.

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“…The mismatch between expert and lay knowledge, and the sociopolitical violence instigated by the former against the latter, has been well studied (Brown, 1992; Fischer, 2000), and the call for more open and democratic modes of decision‐making has also been reclaimed for disaster management. Indeed, critical scholars have called for more symmetric modes of decision‐making and participation in disaster management, demanding the inclusion of indigenous expertise (Mercer et al, 2010; Hastrup, 2011) and community (Pelling, 2007) and subaltern (Kim and Dutta, 2009; Grove, 2013) knowledge in preparedness and recovery plans. Taken together, this body of work suggests that, in the field of disaster management, as Amina Aitsi‐Selmi, Kevin Blanchard, and Virginia Murray (2016, p. 5) put it, ‘linear and technocratic approaches to the science‐policy relationship are no longer suitable’.…”

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Lateral knowledge: shifting expertise for disaster management in Chile

Tironi

Manríquez

2018

Disasters

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Deemed as technocratic and exclusionary, disaster management has failed in its promise of knowing, let alone controlling, catastrophic events. Consequently, disaster managers are searching outside of science for sense‐making analytics. This paper analyses the emergent narratives articulated by disaster managers in Chile to cope with the uncertain nature of their object of intervention. It explores how knowledge of disasters is modified and enriched by disaster managers in what is termed here as ‘lateral knowledge’: the epistemic adjustment by which practitioners revalidate their expert status by expanding key assumptions about disaster risk reduction. The study, which draws on in‐depth interviews with disaster managers in Chile, suggests that lateral knowledge is established both through the increasing validation of community knowledge and the recognition of politics as a critical mediator in the practice of disaster management. The paper concludes by making the larger point that public understanding of science scholars should pay more attention to the adapting capacities of expertise.

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Hidden transcripts of resilience: power and politics in Jamaican disaster management

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