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Conceptualizations of resilient community for social futures
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7813-9588
2023 (English)In: Nourishing Tomorrow: Clean Engineering and Nature-friendly Living / [ed] David S-K Ting; Jacqueline Ann Stagner, World Scientific Publishing , 2023, p. 281-316Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The concepts “resilience” and “community” appear frequently in research on disasters associated with major society-shaping phenomena such as climate change or urbanization. The chapter seeks to explicate how social science research conceptualizes the resilient community, building on a descriptive overview of disaster studies and climate change adaptation literature. Furthermore, the chapter explores how different conceptualizations of the resilient community frame social futures amid disasters. Three key conceptualizations of resilient community arise from the literature: (i) resilient community of belonging, (ii) resilient community of practice, and (iii) resilient community as an object of governance. Patterns arising across these conceptualizations resonate with previous critiques on how a focus on resilience and communities can serve to suppress the ideas and practices of the social, in line with neoliberal politics. Yet the conceptualizations are not univocally compatible with neoliberalism and can point to a variety of social futures. Conceptualizations of the resilient community can draw attention to the self-organizing of communities, as well as illustrate how a civil society mobilizes around a cause. Ideally, the cause is in line with the interests of the disaster-affected people, who typically are also marginalized in and across societies.

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World Scientific Publishing , 2023. p. 281-316
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Community, community resilience, conceptualization
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Climate Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-103653DOI: 10.1142/9789811264375_0009ISBN: 9789811264368 (print)ISBN: 9789811264382 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-103653DiVA, id: diva2:1731470
Available from: 2023-01-27 Created: 2023-01-27 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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