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Negotiated resilience Harris, Leila; Chu, Eric; Ziervogel, Gina, 1975-

Abstract

Resilience thinking has been roundly critiqued for not accounting for the political – and inherently power-laden – structures that shape decision-making. In light of the range of critiques as well as the increasing global momentum around resilience thinking, this paper develops the concept of ‘Negotiated Resilience.’ The concept highlights processes of negotiation to situate, ground, and operationalize ‘resilience.’ The concept puts particular accent on the procedural orientation of resilience – it is not something that ‘exists’ and that we can uniformly define, rather it is a process that requires engagement with diverse actors and interests, both in specific places and across scales. Negotiation also inevitably entails contestation and an ongoing consideration of diverse options and trade-offs. We suggest that when considering the inherent complexities of resilience, we would do better to explicitly theorize, analyze, and speak to these negotiations.

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Negotiated resilience
Creator
Harris, Leila; Chu, Eric; Ziervogel, Gina, 1975-
Contributor
EDGES (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued
2017-07-20
Description
Resilience thinking has been roundly critiqued for not accounting for the political – and inherently power-laden – structures that shape decision-making. In light of the range of critiques as well as the increasing global momentum around resilience thinking, this paper develops the concept of ‘Negotiated Resilience.’ The concept highlights processes of negotiation to situate, ground, and operationalize ‘resilience.’ The concept puts particular accent on the procedural orientation of resilience – it is not something that ‘exists’ and that we can uniformly define, rather it is a process that requires engagement with diverse actors and interests, both in specific places and across scales. Negotiation also inevitably entails contestation and an ongoing consideration of diverse options and trade-offs. We suggest that when considering the inherent complexities of resilience, we would do better to explicitly theorize, analyze, and speak to these negotiations.
Subject
resilience; justice; politics; risk; negotiation; trade-offs
Genre
Article; Postprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2019-01-20
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0364181
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/64779
Affiliation
Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for
Citation
Leila M. Harris, Eric K. Chu & Gina Ziervogel (2017). Negotiated resilience. Resilience, 1-19.
Publisher DOI
10.1080/21693293.2017.1353196
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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