Seeing the forest for the trees: hybridity and social-ecological symbols, rituals and resilience in postdisaster contexts

Tidball, Keith G.

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“…But resilience is influencing the environmental sciences from agriculture to oceans as well as global environmental and climate change reflected in, e.g., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports (e.g., O'Brien et al 2012) and in risk and disaster management (e.g., Berkes 2007, Tidball et al 2010, McSweeney and Coomes 2011, Djalante et al 2013). Resilience thinking is raised in the development literature and in diverse ontologies and epistemologies of the social sciences and the humanities (e.g., Hamel and Välikangas 2003, Redman 2005, Hegmon et al 2008, Simmie and Martin 2010, Robards et al 2011, Crépin et al 2012, Plieninger and Bieling 2012, Ebbesson and Hey 2013, Hall and Lamont 2013, Lorenz 2013, Lyon and Parkins 2013, Barrett and Constas 2014, Chandler 2014, Tidball 2014, Bourbeau 2015, Hobman and Walker 2015, Marston 2015, Sjöstedt 2015, Weichselgartner and Kelman 2015 and with diverse reactions from excitement to those that oppose the approach for diverse reasons (reviewed by, e.g., Brown 2014, Cretney 2014, Stone-Jovicich 2015.…”

Section: Early Work On Resilience and The Environmentmentioning

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Resilience (Republished)

Folke¹

2016

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ABSTRACT.Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about cultivating the capacity to sustain development in the face of expected and surprising change and diverse pathways of development and potential thresholds between them. The evolution of resilience thinking is coupled to socialecological systems and a truly intertwined human-environment planet. Resilience as persistence, adaptability, and transformability of complex adaptive social-ecological systems is the focus, clarifying the dynamic and forward-looking nature of the concept. Resilience thinking emphasizes that social-ecological systems, from the individual, to community, to society as a whole, are embedded in the biosphere. The biosphere connection is an essential observation if sustainability is to be taken seriously. In the continuous advancement of resilience thinking there are efforts aimed at capturing resilience of social-ecological systems and finding ways for people and institutions to govern social-ecological dynamics for improved human well-being, at the local, across levels and scales, to the global. Consequently, in resilience thinking, development issues for human well-being, for people and planet, are framed in a context of understanding and governing complex social-ecological dynamics for sustainability as part of a dynamic biosphere.This invited article is a republication of Folke, C. 2016. "Resilience" of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

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Section: Early Work On Resilience and The Environmentmentioning

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2016

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“…They also highlight how inductive, qualitative research methods can provide rigorous data via triangulation of methods (PAR, ethnographic methods, literature reviews) and data (use of both primary and secondary data), and the application of grounded theory as a systematic qualitative data analysis method. The contribution of ethnographic field work to opening up new ways of seeing and analyzing resilience is also demonstrated by Tidball's (2014) postdisaster case studies in the USA. By capturing stories and recording memorials and acts of replanting, the author is able to examine the symbolic role of trees and tree planting in enhancing disaster recovery.…”

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“…The Actor Network Theory (ANT)-informed papers by Dwiartama and Rosin (2014) and Stone-Jovicich (2015) extend our understanding of how change and resilience unfold through the lens of a world in which the notion of the "social" does not exist other than as an intertwined and dynamic network of human and nonhuman actors. This view of change-via-hybridity is also explored in Tidball's (2014) paper. The author highlights how tree symbols and tree planting rituals, which are viewed as containing both ecological and social meanings and interactions, are instrumental to catalyzing change in postdisaster contexts toward enhanced community resilience.…”

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“…The paper by Tidball (2014) examines the role of social-ecological symbols in three postdisaster case studies in the USA (New York 2001 terrorist attack, New Orleans 2005 hurricane Katrina, and tornado-torn Joplin, Missouri in 2011). He highlights the importance of the symbol of the tree and the ritual of tree planting in situations where the SES has undergone large-scale shocks.…”

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“…Through their application of qualitative and participatory methodologies extensively used in the field of anthropology, they are able to provide a rich understanding of the role of cultural practices and institutions in facilitating the Guna people's capacity to adapt and be more resilient both at a community and individual level. Tidball's (2014) case studies in New York City, New Orleans, and Joplin, Missouri remind us, however, that material and nonmaterial symbols and rituals also play an important role in enhancing resilience in Western countries and urban contexts. His study of tree symbols and treeplanting rituals joins other social-ecological resilience studies that explore the role of culture-including theatre, music, and the visual arts-in supporting people and societies to articulate visions and build sustainable pathways (e.g., Bjordam 2012, Goldstein 2012, Brown et al 2017.…”

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Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research

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. 2018. Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research. Ecology and Society 23 (1) INTRODUCTIONAs we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible impacts of human activities on the planet-encapsulated in the notion of the Anthropocene-the need to engage across a range of ways of knowing and doing becomes increasingly urgent. The intersection and interdependence of human-environment systems is seen by scholars, policy makers, and other stakeholders as providing a promising vehicle for bridging understandings and guiding actions toward a more sustainable future Folke 1998, Berkes et al. 2008).Growing attention is thus being focused on social-ecological resilience. Indeed, it is increasingly being adopted as a centerpiece of policy making, planning processes, and management strategies (e.g., Field et al. 2014; http://www.100resilientcities.org). It also is being embraced in other fora-such as civil society and social movements (e.g., the Transition Movement) and in arts and creative practice-as a means to invoke and provoke critical reflection and debates about society directions and alternative visions (e.g., Rathwell and Armitage 2016, Brown et al. 2017; https://transitionnetwork.org).The effectiveness of social-ecological resilience in informing transitions to more sustainable futures and actions depends on an understanding of biophysical, environmental, and human systems. There is widespread agreement that we need integrative research that transcends disciplinary boundaries and embraces ideas from the natural and social sciences, as well as other bodies of knowledge (e.g., Castree et al. 2014, Brondizio et al. 2016). This is not new to social-ecological resilience. Over the past decade, the field has taken a "social turn" (Brown 2013) as resilience researchers broadened their theoretical and methodological lens to incorporate insights and approaches from a wide range of non-natural science disciplines: from the social and behavioral sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology, human geography, economics, psychology) to closely aligned interdisciplinary fields (e.g., sustainability sciences, global environmental change sciences, environmental education, architecture, planning, law) and, to some extent, the humanities (e.g., literature, philosophy, religion, arts, and music). The field also has widened its concept of what are credible knowledge practices, expanding from a positivist tradition of scientific inquiry to interpretive and participatory modes of research (e.g., Fazey et al. 2018). This crossdisciplinary engagement has gained momentum over the years, as evidenced in the expansion in number and scope of integrative work presented at the Resilience conferences since 2008 (see Bousquet et al. 2016) and related publications.This Special Feature emerged in response to this mounting crossdisciplinary appetite and the opportunity to open up a discussion about how and in what ways this collaboration can be strengthened moving forwar...

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Seeing the forest for the trees: hybridity and social-ecological symbols, rituals and resilience in postdisaster contexts

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Expanding the contribution of the social sciences to social-ecological resilience research

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