Resilience, resistance, infrapolitics and enmeshment

Bourbeau, Philippe; Ryan, Caitlin

doi:10.1177/1354066117692031

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“…Finally, the case of Dresden is an example of what Kevin Grove (2013: 204) calls 'subversive resilience'. This form of resilience uses the well-known and often discussed features of resilience such as responsibility or empowerment, not for the sake of assuring a smooth governance but to mobilize capacities in order to create '"mutant rules" of resilience' (Grove, 2014: 253) that challenge authority and lend resistance the means to persist (Bourbeau and Ryan, 2018). The emerging volunteering structures in the case of Dresden depict what Zebrowski phrases as 'the force of resilience to disrupt identity and coherence' (2016: 152).…”

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Resilience unwanted: Between control and cooperation in disaster response

Krüger

Albris

2020

Security Dialogue

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This article conceptualizes resilience as an emergent and contingent practice that shapes societal relationships in unexpected ways. It focuses on the case of the 2013 floods in Dresden, a city that witnessed three major floods within 11 years. Emergent volunteer activities on the ground and on social media played a significant role during the flood emergency response efforts. Drawing on Philippe Bourbeau’s definition of resilience as a process of patterned adjustment, the article regards these emergent structures as incidents of resilience. In the case of Dresden, not only was resilience not explicitly requested by the state, but it was in several incidents actively not wanted. While most of the volunteering activities arising from social media platforms intended to support the disaster management authorities, the case shows how subversive forms of resilience were mobilized to resist official plans. They finally urged authorities to adapt to a new social and technological reality in order to render unaffiliated volunteering governable. Resilience thus emerges as an adaptive process that shapes and is shaped by societal relations. The article thus seeks to add another facet to the debate on resilience by demonstrating how resilience helps us to make sense of complex and interdependent adaptation processes.

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Resilience unwanted: Between control and cooperation in disaster response

Krüger

Albris

2020

Security Dialogue

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“…The transformative resilience of energy systems, which is tied up with the notion of 'energy justice', refers to agents' negation of a fossil-based energy system and its oligarchical power structure; and the creation of a renewable-based system, energy commons and collaboratives beyond the energy establishment (Acosta et al, 2018;Jesse, Heinrichs & Kuchshinrichs, 2019). In other words, the sustainable energy transformation comes with transformative resilience and energy justice that typically assumes the form of resistance to the most hegemonic powers (VanderPlaat, 2016;Bourbeau & Ryan, 2018;Juncos, 2018;Schwartz, 2018). Transformational adaptation includes the long-term vision of energy governance, but it searches for realizing such transformation through adaptations by the status quo.…”

Section: Transformative Resilience and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Ossewaarde¹,

Filatova²,

Georgiadou³

et al. 2020

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Abstract. Since the 1970s, Holling's socio-ecological systems (SES) approach has been a most predominant theoretical force in resilience research in the context of the climate crisis. From Holling's approach, however, two contrasting scientific approaches to resilience have developed, namely, naturalism and constructivism. While naturalist resilience research takes SES as complex systems marked by non-linearity and evolutionary changes, constructivist resilience research focuses on the embeddedness of SES in heterogenous contexts. In naturalist resilience research resilience is defined as a system property, while in constructivist resilience research resilience is politically loaded and historically contingent. The aim of this paper is to review and structure current developments in resilience research in the field of climate change studies, in terms of the approaches, definitions, models and commitments that are typical for naturalism and constructivism; identify the key tension between naturalist and constructivist resilience research in terms of the widely discussed issue of adaptation and transformation, and discuss its implications for sustainable development; and propose a research agenda of topics distilled from the adaptation-transformation tension between naturalist and constructivist resilience research.

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“…One of the key consequences of this self‐understanding as a normative or liberal power is that resilience is understood as a process rather than as an end in itself (Bourbeau and Ryan, ). This is explicitly acknowledged in the Joint Communication as the first ‘guiding consideration for a strategic approach to resilience’ (Commission and HR, 2017, p. 23).…”

Section: Translating the Resilience Discourse: Path Dependence Amentioning

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Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn

Joseph

Juncos

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article looks at the development of the resilience approach in EU foreign policy. Building state and societal resilience in the EU's neighbourhood has been identified as one of the key priorities in the EU global strategy. Here we critically analyse these developments and seek to provide an account of the complex dynamics within which the EU's approach to resilience is located. We argue that EU resilience-thinking is influenced by three broad dynamicsthe neoliberal and Anglo-Saxon approaches to resilience in the sphere of global governance; the particular normative discourse of the EU as a certain type of global actor (the EU as a normative/liberal power); and the multilevel character of the EU with its complex institutional structure and path dependencies which results in decoupling. As a consequence, the 'translation' of resilience constitutes an emergent project at the EU level, but also brings with it new challenges. The argument will be illustrated through a study of the EU global strategy and the Joint Communication on resilience in the neighbourhood.

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Resilience, resistance, infrapolitics and enmeshment

Cited by 65 publications

References 43 publications

Resilience unwanted: Between control and cooperation in disaster response

Resilience unwanted: Between control and cooperation in disaster response

Review article: Towards a context-driven research: a state-of-the-art review of resilience research on climate change

Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn

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