Resilience as a Political Ideal

Kolers, Avery

doi:10.1080/21550085.2016.1173283

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“…While resilience is often intuitively understood to be an uncontested "good"or universally beneficialthere is a small but growing body of work that scrutinizes the normative assumptions behind resilience, both as a concept and in practice [8,34]. For example, some critics of resilience have pointed out that undesirable and unequal systems can also be very persistent, or resilient.…”

Section: Rethinking Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa: future directions for research and practice

Rodina

Baker

Galvin

et al. 2017

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Drawing from the proceedings of an expert workshop with academics, researchers, government and NGO participants working in diverse countries in southern Africa and beyond, this paper reviews the discourse on resilience, both conceptually and in practice. We highlight opportunities to develop and apply more situated, equity-sensitive and context-relevant understanding of resilience, particularly in the water sector. To pursue more just and resilient water futures in highly unequal and water stressed regions, we propose that researchers and practitioners (1) place greater emphasis on the transformative potential of resilience, (2) broaden the social dimensions of resilience to account more fully for intangible and other social factors, (3) engage critically with the decision-making processes and practices of building resilience, (4) contribute to the development of indicators and guidelines for building just and resilient water futures, (5) strengthen the role of situated knowledges, (6) critically engage with scale and boundaries in complex adaptive systems, and (7) strengthen the policy-science-civil society interface.

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Section: Rethinking Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa: future directions for research and practice

Rodina

Baker

Galvin

et al. 2017

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…More research is needed to include the ways in which human actions shape factors such as agrarian structure. Resilience analyses in agroecosystems have not considered power relations, assuming the existence of a society in consensus, in which it is common for certain groups to support the disasters provoked by capitalism [17,48]. Nevertheless, it is relevant to include the way in which conscious choices made collectively and individually can transform conditions of inequality towards essentially new systems, this being a fundamental factor in the level of resilience acquired [9,49,50].…”

Section: Capacity Of Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

2020

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This article proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for analyzing agroecosystem resilience, in which aspects such as agrarian structure and peasant community agency are included as determining factors. The methodology is applied to a comparison of two peasant communities in Latin America (Brazil and Colombia), emphasizing the capacity to transform unsustainable power structures in place of adapting to them. We find that when agrarian structure is more equitable and peasant agency is strongly developed through political formation, organization and women's participation, then there is a greater construction of resilience that improves peasant livelihoods and dignity. This application demonstrates that when agency is strongly developed, as in the case of Brazil, it is possible to transform structural conditions that restrict resilience. The inclusion and consideration of biophysical variables, management practices, agrarian structure and agency, through a participatory approach, allows for the identification of factors that inhibit or potentiate the resilience of agroecosystems.

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“…More research is needed to include the ways in which human actions shape factors such as agrarian structure. Resilience analyses have not considered power relations, assuming the existence of a society in consensus, in which it is common for certain groups to support the disasters provoked by capitalism (17,38). Nevertheless, it is relevant to include the way in which conscious choices made collectively and individually can transform conditions of inequality towards essentially new systems, this being a fundamental factor in the level of resilience acquired (9,39,40).…”

Section: Capacity Of Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

Cordoba

Triviño

Toro

2019

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AbstractThis article proposes a conceptual and methodological framework for analyzing agroecosystem resilience, which incorporates agrarian structure and peasant community agency. The methodology is applied to a comparison of two peasant communities in Latin America (Brazil and Colombia), emphasizing the capacity to transform unsustainable power structures in place of adapting to them. This application demonstrates that when agency is strongly developed, as in the case of Brazil, it is possible to transform structural conditions that restrict resilience. The inclusion and consideration of biophysical variables, management practices, agrarian structure and agency, through a participatory approach, allows for the identification of factors that inhibit or potentiate the resilience of agroecosystems.

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Resilience as a Political Ideal

Cited by 21 publications

References 32 publications

Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa: future directions for research and practice

Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa: future directions for research and practice

Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

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