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- Hollis, Simon
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Global and local re-presentations of resilience in the Caribbean : the role of art in the construction of the self
- 2018
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Ingår i: Resilience. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2169-3293 .- 2169-3307. ; 6:1, s. 35-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The global diffusion and reification of resilience – as the innate acceptance of vulnerability and suffering – has become an increasingly common feature in global development and humanitarian discourses. The advocacy of Disaster Risk Reduction represents a central technique of this global ontology of resilience that aims to influence the individual, the society and the state. This article explores how this global worldview of resilience is received by local rationalities of resilience in the Caribbean. This is achieved by examining Caribbean art as a re-presentational form of identity that shapes distinct ontological understandings of insecurity and vulnerability, which subsequently affects the possibilities of subjectivisation which lead towards local creative resistance or a global consent of suffering.
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- Plummer, Ryan, et al.
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Probing the relationship between ecosystem perceptions and approaches to environmental governance : an exploratory content analysis of seven water dilemmas
- 2018
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Ingår i: Resilience. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2169-3293 .- 2169-3307. ; 6:1, s. 54-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Addressing wicked 'water dilemmas' requires an understanding of the context within which they are embedded. This study explored perceptions of the ecosystem in terms of resilience and the governance approaches employed through a content analysis of documents from seven case studies across the globe. Analytical constructs developed for resilience and governance approaches guided the exploration. Multiple resilience types were present in documents for each case, but few patterns emerged across cases. Governance approaches were strongly focused on state approaches in most cases. A relationship between resilience type and governance approach was not clear; however, a pattern emerged between the presence of the social-ecological resilience type and non-state-centred governance forms. The type of author (government, non-government) or the type of document (research and advisory, descriptive) were not found to mediate the findings as resilience framings varied considerably and state governance approaches were emphasised throughout. As the findings stand in contrast to contemporary scholarship on understanding ecosystems and environmental governance they raise important issues to which individuals must be cognizant when accessing documents for guidance. They also open avenues for future investigation of water dilemmas at the nexus of theory, policy and practice.
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- Thorén, Henrik, et al.
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Is resilience a normative concept?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Resilience - International Policies, Practices and Discourses. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2169-3293. ; 6:2, s. 112-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we engage with the question of the normative content of the resilience concept. The issues are approached in two consecutive steps. First, we proceed from a narrow construal of the resilience concept – as the ability of a system to absorb a disturbance – and show that under an analysis of normative concepts as evaluative concepts resilience comes out as descriptive. In the second part of the paper, we argue that (1) for systems of interest (primarily social systems or system with a social component) we seem to have options with respect to how they are described and (2) that this matters for what is to be taken as a sign of resilience as opposed to a sign of the lack of resilience for such systems. We discuss the implications of this for how the concept should be applied in practice and suggest that users of the resilience concept face a choice between versions of the concept that are either ontologically or normatively charged.
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- Wrangel, Claes, 1980
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Hope in a time of catastrophe? Resilience and the future in bare life
- 2014
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Ingår i: Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2169-3293 .- 2169-3307. ; 2:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The framework of resilience has been claimed to strip bodies of both hope and the promise of the future, reducing life to mere biology, concerned only with its survivability. This article interrogates such claims by critical theory, analysing the definitions of life and time embedded in them. Reading the figure of human nature as it appears in US President Obama's call for a common humanity – united by hope in a world of insurmountable insecurity – this article asks what promises structure liberal subjectivity when security and universalism are seemingly abandoned. Through the lens of Agambian biopolitics, I argue that resilient life is produced not in opposition to hope, but as its embodiment, turning indefinite insecurity into a continuous experience of hope, and hence into a structure of promise. As such, I submit that the hopeful life today has become the barest of all, engendered by the production of a paradoxical temporal indistinction between an open future and the inevitability of catastrophe.
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