Racializing Resilience: Assemblage, Critique, and Contested Futures in Greater Miami Resilience Planning

Grove, Kevin; Cox, Savannah; Barnett, Allain J.

doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1715778

Cited by 39 publications

(15 citation statements)

References 54 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Moreover, six out of 10 residents in Greater Miami suffer from housing unaffordability and low wages (Florida et al, 2019). These groups are also less able to participate in local governance (Grove et al, 2020).…”

Section: A Social-environmental Extremes Scenario Of Extreme Flooding In Miami Floridamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly to New Orleans, Miami's economic model is grounded on wetland alteration, rapid suburbanization and large-scale infrastructure projects that increased exposure to flooding and sea-level rise (Blessing et al, 2017;Grove et al, 2020). Although Miami has officially embraced a resilient city approach, this label conceals the same economic growth model that has produced environmental degradation, devalued black areas and created white spaces of growth (Grove et al, 2020), as previously witnessed in New Orleans. In New Orleans, these tensions were not resolved in the aftermath of Katrina, that ended up reinforcing, rather than transforming the preexisting economic model.…”

Section: A Social-environmental Extremes Scenario Of Extreme Flooding In Miami Floridamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Miami's deeply rooted economic growth model will persist or might even benefit from the disaster, through large developments and real estate projects in flood-damaged areas. Yet, based on Hurricane Katrina, we also expect the consolidation of social movements promoting notions of resilience and disaster risk reduction grounded on overcoming racial and economic inequalities, a process which today is in its infancy (see also Grove et al, 2020). The extent of their ability to trigger change in an economically and racially exclusionary development model will depend on contextual factors that are less predictable.…”

Section: A Social-environmental Extremes Scenario Of Extreme Flooding In Miami Floridamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Scenarios of Human Responses to Unprecedented Social‐Environmental Extreme Events

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In a rapidly changing world, what is today an unprecedented extreme may soon become the norm. As a result, extreme‐related disasters are expected to become more frequent and intense. This will have widespread socio‐economic consequences and affect the ability of different societal groups to recover from and adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions. Therefore, there is the need to decipher the relation between genesis of unprecedented events, accumulation and distribution of risk, and recovery trajectories across different societal groups. Here, we develop an analytical approach to unravel the complexity of future extremes and multiscalar societal responses—from households to national governments and from immediate impacts to longer term recovery. This requires creating new forms of knowledge that integrate analyses of the past—that is, structural causes and political processes of risk accumulation and differentiated recovery trajectories—with plausible scenarios of future environmental extremes grounded in the event‐specific literature. We specifically seek to combine the physical characteristics of the extremes with examinations of how culture, politics, power, and policy visions shape societal responses to unprecedented events, and interpret the events as social‐environmental extremes. This new approach, at the nexus between social and natural sciences, has the concrete advantage of providing an impact‐focused vision of future social‐environmental risks, beyond what is achievable within conventional disciplinary boundaries. In this paper, we focus on extreme flooding events and the societal responses they elicit. However, our approach is flexible and applicable to a wide range of extreme events. We see it as the first building block of a new field of research, allowing for novel and integrated theoretical explanations and forecasting of social‐environmental extremes.

show abstract

Section: A Social-environmental Extremes Scenario Of Extreme Flooding In Miami Floridamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Social-environmental Extremes Scenario Of Extreme Flooding In Miami Floridamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Social-environmental Extremes Scenario Of Extreme Flooding In Miami Floridamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Scenarios of Human Responses to Unprecedented Social‐Environmental Extreme Events

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These social group dynamics often intersect with collective or individual property rights, which can further influence the nature of exclusive or inclusive access to resources among social groups (Meinzen-Dick et al 2014;Barnett et al 2017;Brewer et al 2012). Future research could benefit from integration with scholarship examining the relationships between the environment and race, ethnicity, gender, religion and other dimensions of human and social diversity (Ishiyama 2003;Hartberg et al 2016;Baldwin 2017;Pulido 2017;De Lara 2018;Meinzen-Dick et al 2014;Grove et al 2020). Additionally, this research could explore the relationships between social group dynamics, private and collective property systems, and tradeoffs and inequities in outcomes for communities inside and outside clearly defined resource boundaries.…”

Section: Gaps In the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Defining Success in the Commons: Addressing Problem Orientations, Multidimensionality, Norms, and Tradeoffs

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Commons and social-ecological systems research examines institutional arrangements for governing natural resources to improve social and ecological outcomes. However, no universal definition of success exists. We examine the CPR and SES synthesis literature to identify trends, gaps and challenges for examining success. We address: (1) gaps in the literature, (2) multidimensionality and tradeoffs, and (3) and the link between problem orientation and definitions of success. To do this we conduct a comprehensive review of Large-N studies, metaanalyses and systematic reviews of CPR and SES governance (n = 45). We found seven dimensions of success, corresponding to collective choice, constitutional and operational levels, temporal dimensions, and socioeconomic outcomes. Most studies did not address power and tradeoffs, or specify the social groups to whom success would apply. The majority of studies defined success in one dimension, most often demand-side provisioning (e.g., productivity or biodiversity). A regression analysis suggests that studies on rangelands or grasslands, correlative studies, and/or studies of state property systems (i.e., protected areas) were more likely to use fewer dimensions of success. Problem orientations often did not correlate with dimensions of success considered in a study, suggesting that measures of success often cannot adequately address the full suite of problems recognized in synthesis research. This presents a significant challenge for collective action among scholars who aim to develop general knowledge on SES and CPR governance. We discuss exemplary studies that measure success as multidimensional, address power and tradeoffs, and conclude with four recommendations for advancing the analysis of success.

show abstract

“…At issue here is not that the dismissively critical narrative surrounding resilience is wrong per se—as my own work demonstrates, resilience initiatives often produce biopolitical effects that do reinforce neoliberal governance agendas. But this narrative offers a perilously narrow view on the resilience landscape—it struggles to explain how seasoned activists continue to engage, however cautiously, with urban resilience initiatives (Collier et al, 2017; Grove et al, 2018). And it struggles to account for important transformations in governance that resilience initiatives are producing—transformations that are irreducible to neoliberal reforms and reflect the designerly roots of resilience thinking that Resilience strives to unpack.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Critique, genealogy, recuperation

Grove

2019

Dialogues in Human Geography

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Racializing Resilience: Assemblage, Critique, and Contested Futures in Greater Miami Resilience Planning

Cited by 39 publications

References 54 publications

Scenarios of Human Responses to Unprecedented Social‐Environmental Extreme Events

Scenarios of Human Responses to Unprecedented Social‐Environmental Extreme Events

Defining Success in the Commons: Addressing Problem Orientations, Multidimensionality, Norms, and Tradeoffs

Critique, genealogy, recuperation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About