Reframing resilience as resistance: Situating disaster recovery within colonialism

Sou, Gemma

doi:10.1111/geoj.12413

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“…The main goal of resilience is to reduce the effects of a disturbance, a concept that exists in different research areas with very similar de nitions [57][58][59]. However, there is no uniform and applicable de nition in different elds, which includes several features such as self-organization [60, 60, 61], speed [62,63], recovery [64-67], preservation and survival [53,68], balance [69,70], and resistance [32,71,72]. Therefore, it can be concluded that resilience is the ability of societies to react and recover from disasters and includes those inherent conditions that allow the system to absorb the effects and deal with an event [73,74].…”

Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience capacities to reduce the impacts of natural disasters (flood)

Amirsadat

Omidipoor²,

Bastaminia

et al. 2023

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The purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate resilience capacities to reduce the impacts of natural disasters (floods) in Konarak city. This study is applied research, which uses descriptive-analytical method to identify and measure dimensions and components resilience of Konarak city. The sample size was estimated using Cochran's formula of 371 households in four neighborhoods of Shomal nirogah gazi, Surak, Nazarabad and Jonoob shahr of Konarak city. To conduct research, first by using library sources, indicators and factors affecting social, economic, institutional, physical, environmental, health-sanitary and individual resilience were identified, and then the field methods and questionnaire were used to collect the required information.In order to analyze the data, the coefficient of multiple correlations such as multiple regression analyses and path analysis were used. The results showed that the level of resilience in the Konarak city is in the social dimension 48.70, economic 38.61, institutional 41.56, physical 31.20, environmental 34.12, health-sanitary 27.48 and individual dimension 39.12, which were in an unfavourable situation. The highest level of resilience is related to the neighbourhoods Shomal nirogah gazi and Surak with 40.95 and 37.81%, respectively, and the lowest level of resilience is for the neighborhoods Nazarabad and Jonoob shahr with 34.22 and 36.05%, respectively. Also, path analysis of resilience shows that in relation to the direct effects of resilience, the social dimension has the highest effect with (0.56) and the next ranks are the economic dimension with (0.51), the environmental dimension (0.41), and the physical dimension (0.39). ), the individual dimension (0.37), the institutional dimension (0.13) and the health-sanitary dimension with (0.10) have influenced the resilience of Konark city. Regarding the indirect effects, social resilience has the highest (0.43) and institutional dimension has the lowest (0.04) indirect impact on the resilience of the sample neighbourhoods of Konarak city.

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Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience capacities to reduce the impacts of natural disasters (flood)

Amirsadat

Omidipoor²,

Bastaminia

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…A subject of significant academic attention and debate, resilience is perhaps one of the most contested concepts in disaster scholarship (as well as in other disciplines!) (Rogers 2015;Humbert and Joseph 2019;Chandler 2020;Joseph 2021;Sou 2021;Wakefield et al 2021). We will not rehearse the evolution of the concept as this has been sufficiently covered in the literature (for example , Mayena 2006;Alexander 2013;Gaillard and Jigyasu 2016); but in the context of disasters, in a normative sense, we maintain resilience is both a desired outcome and a process leading to a desired outcome, with the definitions largely focussing on ideas of the ability to self-organize and the capacity to learn, to change, and to adapt, its understandings remaining nebulous and malleable.…”

Section: Resilient Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Resilience in the Assumed City

Cheek

Chmutina

2022

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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The malleable nature of both the idea of a city and the idea of resilience raises an important question—why measure? Resilience is assumed to be located in the physical infrastructure of specific places or as a quality of the people located there. For disasters, we are often trying to conceptualize, measure, or render legible resilience in physical structures. But what is it that we are trying to measure, and is the idea of a city reflected in these measurements? If cities are organized around something other than resilience, is resilience their natural by-product? What is necessitating the need for increased—and measured—resilience? Using interpretive policy analysis, we explored five well known disaster resilience frameworks (UNDRR’s Making Cities Resilient Campaign, UN-Habitat’s City Resilience Profiling Programme, The World Bank and GFDRR’s Resilient Cities Program, Arup and The Rockefeller Foundation’s City Resilience Index, and The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities) to identify the working definition of “city” and of “resilience.” We conclude that if the demand for cities to become more resilient is an acknowledgment of the risk produced by globalized urbanization, then the call itself is an indictment of the current state of our cities.

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“…These responses reflect a broader concern that early response to Covid-19 was underpinned by a tension between formal and informal efforts whilst asserting scepticism concerning the capacity of informal efforts to remain efficacious in the long term (See also Sou, 2021 ). However, and owing to the pandemic’s potential to overwhelm those resources governments’ had at the existing disposal, these informal practices proved essential to developing adequate response to the pandemic.…”

Section: Findings: People In a Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%