Rethinking knowledge systems for urban resilience: Feminist and decolonial contributions to just transformations

Wijsman, Katinka; Feagan, Mathieu

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.04.017

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“…For example, the risk of property damage to households and public facilities was regarded as both important and difficult to monitor because of questions of correlation and causation of socioeconomic outcomes and specific shoreline features. Differing ontological, epistemological, and ethical commitments (or starting points) across disciplines here led to contrasting interpretations of what and how to monitor the resilience of shorelines (Wijsman and Feagan 2019); yet these foundational differences were hard to address given the separation of TWG by disciplinary areas (ecological, technical, social) and the foundational assumption of epistemological commensurability, which especially in the highly diverse social sciences is not a given. Overall, the effort required constant interpretation, translation, and communication across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries, necessitating interdisciplinary teams with staff expertise in coordination and time and resources to spend toward these activities.…”

Section: Five Characteristics and Challenges To Operationalizing Shoreline Resiliencementioning

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Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.

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Auyeung²,

Brashear³

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There is growing interest in the application of nature-based solutions to adapt to climate change and promote resilience, yet barriers exist to their implementation. These include a perceived lack of evidence of their functioning in comparison to conventional solutions and an inability for existing design, policy, and assessment processes to capture the multiple benefits of these solutions. Positing this as a challenge of operationalizing and measuring resilience, we argue that the concept of resilience needs to be given concrete meaning in applied management contexts. Starting with shoreline vulnerability as a policy problem and natural and naturebased shoreline features as a promising solution, we present a case study of a co-creative process to produce an interdisciplinary and locally relevant approach to understanding and capturing the benefits of natural and nature-based solutions. We develop the notion of resilience service to enable a concreteness to resilience that simultaneously takes into account ecological, technical, and social dimensions. Through the co-creative process, our researcher-practitioner network developed a monitoring framework for shoreline features in New York State to facilitate the comparison of natural and nature-based features with conventional shoreline approaches. We describe the process and assess the advantages and drawbacks of integrating scientific input and local knowledge. We present the monitoring framework, showing how the co-creative character of the process is consequential in the formulation of the final framework through the selection of parameters, indicators, and protocols. We argue that interdisciplinarity, co-creation, pragmatism, multi-scalar applicability, and policy relevance are critical principles to understand the functioning and facilitate the implementation of naturebased solutions, while recognizing that this work necessitates compromise and as such will lead to continued deliberation. We posit this is a strength of the process for it acknowledges the creation of resilience as a social process in which values are central and subject to change.

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confidence: 99%

Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.

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Auyeung²,

Brashear³

et al. 2021

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“…Parte de las críticas sobre este concepto es que promueve el statu quo, en tanto la finalidad es poner en práctica la capacidad para regresar al estado previo de un impacto (Diprose, 2015). Sin embargo, la academia ha integrado la adaptación transformativa al discurso de la resiliencia con el entendimiento de que, entre otras cosas, las comunidades participan de los esfuerzos de adaptación que permiten cambiar las circunstancias de riesgos a las que están expuestas (Wijsman y Feagan, 2019).…”

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Análisis crítico del concepto resiliencia en la política pública de Puerto Rico: una aportación del Trabajo Social

Álvarez-Rosario

2021

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Resiliencia es un concepto que ha tomado mayor resonancia en Puerto Rico tras el impacto de los huracanes Irma y María, integrándose indistintamente en la forma discursiva, teórica o práctica, en el trabajo con personas y en las gestiones gubernamentales. En este trabajo se presenta un análisis de contenido sobre las políticas públicas propuestas por la Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico que incorporaron el concepto resiliencia. Se analizan las conceptualizaciones sobre resiliencia de la teoría crítica de Michel Foucault, con la finalidad de problematizarlas y contextualizarlas en las imbricaciones de las dinámicas sociales, políticas, económicas y ambientales de la Isla. Además, se abordan las implicaciones de este análisis para la gestión de política pública desde la perspectiva de Trabajo Social, así como recomendaciones para una práctica antiopresiva.

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“…In the academy, feminism operates as a theoretical framework in numerous fields. These include such disparate disciplines as feminist criticism, which looks at "the ways in which literature reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women" (Tyson, 2006) and urban planning, for instance in examining feminist and decolonial contributions to knowledge systems for urban resilience (Wijsman & Feagan, 2019).…”

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Toward a Feminist Information Architecture

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2021

Advances in Information Architecture

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Rethinking knowledge systems for urban resilience: Feminist and decolonial contributions to just transformations

Cited by 49 publications

References 31 publications

Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.

Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State.

Análisis crítico del concepto resiliencia en la política pública de Puerto Rico: una aportación del Trabajo Social

Toward a Feminist Information Architecture

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