What is social resilience? Lessons learned and ways forward

Keck, Markus; Sakdapolrak, Patrick

doi:10.3112/erdkunde.2013.01.02

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“…Attention has thus widened from the ecological to include also the social dimensions of resilience (Adger 2000, Cote andNightingale 2012). This comprises, for example, human agency, social learning, and the skills and capacities of social actors to cope with, adapt to change, and facilitate transformation (Folke et al 2010, Moore and Westley 2011, Berkes and Ross 2013, Keck and Sakdapolrak 2013, Skerratt 2013, Cretney 2014, Ifejika Speranza et al 2014). …”

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Social networks and the resilience of rural communities in the Global South: a critical review and conceptual reflections

Rockenbauch¹,

Sakdapolrak²

2017

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ABSTRACT. In the last decades, a growing scholarship has outlined the crucial role of social networks as a source of resilience. However, with regard to the Global South, the role of social networks for the resilience of rural communities remains an underresearched and underconceptualized issue, because research remains scattered between different strands and has rarely been integrated from a resilience perspective. To provide common ground for the exchange between disciplines and to identify steps towards a more comprehensive social network perspective on the resilience of rural communities in the Global South, we present a systematic review of contemporary case studies from three strands of research: (i) natural resource management, (ii) agricultural innovation, and (iii) social support. Although studies in each strand have their own particular strengths and weaknesses in addressing aspects of the resilience of rural communities in the Global South, they all share a static view of the outcomes of social networks, tend to emphasize structure over agency, and neglect spatial dimensions of social relations. To address these challenges, we propose a translocal social network perspective on resilience that views rural communities as being embedded in social networks that connect people and facilitate the flow of resources, information, and knowledge between places.

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Social networks and the resilience of rural communities in the Global South: a critical review and conceptual reflections

Rockenbauch¹,

Sakdapolrak²

2017

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“…Analysing the framing processes of flood risk management strategies in the London and Rotterdam region shows that resilience is far from 'depoliticized', as other authors have already mentioned (Keck & Sakdapolrak, 2013;Pelling & Manuel-Navarrete, 2011). If and how resilience thinking is adopted, is influenced by a discursive process and often requires political choices.…”

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“…long-standing institutions will less likely embrace a highly transformative concept such as evolutionary resilience (White & O'Hare, 2014). Coming from the natural sciences, the resilience concept bears the risk of 'depoliticizing' social structures and power relations (Keck & Sakdapolrak, 2013;Pelling & Manuel-Navarrete, 2011). Other authors have hinted at the potential danger of using the resilience narrative to justify austerity measures and government's retreat (Chandler, 2014;Davoudi, 2016;Evans & Reid, 2014).…”

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Resilience unpacked – framing of ‘uncertainty’ and ‘adaptability’ in long-term flood risk management strategies for London and Rotterdam

Restemeyer

Brink

Woltjer

2018

European Planning Studies

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Resilience is held as a promising concept to produce a paradigm shift from traditional flood control to an integration of flood risk management and spatial planning. Central ideas to the resilience narrative are that 'nothing is certain except uncertainty itself' and 'adaptability' is key to 'governing the unknown'. However, this terminology is far from clear, yet increasingly used, which raises the question how it is made sense of in practice. To answer this question, we examine two long-term flood risk management strategies in the London and Rotterdam region with a policy framing perspective (i.e. the English Thames Estuary 2100 Plan and the Dutch Delta Programme). In both strategies, uncertainties are a key concern, leading to adaptive strategic plans. Reconstructing the framing processes shows that the English adopted a 'scientific pragmatism' frame and the Dutch a 'joint fact-finding' frame. While this led to different governance approaches, there are also striking parallels. Both cases use established methods such as scenario planning and monitoring to 'manage' uncertainties. Similarly to previous turns in flood risk management, the resilience narrative seems to be accommodated in a technical-rational way, resulting in policy strategies that are maintaining the status quo rather than bringing about a paradigm shift. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Proposals to strengthen the analysis of the social side of resilience have multiplied in the last decade (Keck andSakdapolrak 2013, Fabinyi et al 2014). These proposals seek hybrid and more evenhanded representations of SESs that combine mainstream social-ecological knowledge with specific social science concepts and approaches.…”

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Double coupling: modeling subjectivity and asymmetric organization in social-ecological systems

Manuel-Navarrete¹

2015

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ABSTRACT. Social-ecological organization is a multidimensional phenomenon that combines material and symbolic processes. However, the coupling between social and ecological subsystem is often conceptualized as purely material, thus reducing the symbolic dimension to its behavioral and actionable expressions. In this paper I conceptualize social-ecological systems as doubly coupled. On the one hand, material expressions of socio-cultural processes affect and are affected by ecological dynamics. On the other hand, coupled social-ecological material dynamics are concurrently coupled with subjective dynamics via coding, decoding, personal experience, and human agency. This second coupling operates across two organizationally heterogeneous dimensions: material and symbolic. Although resilience thinking builds on the recognition of organizational asymmetry between living and nonliving systems, it has overlooked the equivalent asymmetry between ecological and socio-cultural subsystems. Three guiding concepts are proposed to formalize double coupling. The first one, social-ecological asymmetry, expands on past seminal work on ecological self-organization to incorporate reflexivity and subjectivity in social-ecological modeling. Organizational asymmetry is based in the distinction between social rules, which are symbolically produced and changed through human agents' reflexivity and purpose, and biophysical rules, which are determined by functional relations between ecological components. The second guiding concept, conscious power, brings to the fore human agents' distinctive capacity to produce our own subjective identity and the consequences of this capacity for social-ecological organization. The third concept, congruence between subjective and objective dynamics, redefines sustainability as contingent on congruent relations between material and symbolic processes. Social-ecological theories and analyses based on these three guiding concepts would support the integration of current structuralist-functionalist methods, which sufficiently and appropriately characterize ecological organization, with ethnographic and narrative methods exploring human intentionality, reflexivity, and biographical development.

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What is social resilience? Lessons learned and ways forward

Cited by 553 publications

References 52 publications

Social networks and the resilience of rural communities in the Global South: a critical review and conceptual reflections

Social networks and the resilience of rural communities in the Global South: a critical review and conceptual reflections

Resilience unpacked – framing of ‘uncertainty’ and ‘adaptability’ in long-term flood risk management strategies for London and Rotterdam

Double coupling: modeling subjectivity and asymmetric organization in social-ecological systems

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