The politics of vulnerability and resilience

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Autor(a) principal: Frerks,Georg
Data de Publicação: 2011
Outros Autores: Warner,Jeroen, Weijs,Bart
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Ambiente & Sociedade (Online)
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-753X2011000200008
Resumo: Much conceptual confusion exists over the concepts of vulnerability and (social) resilience, reinforced by the different paradigms (the article identifies four) and disciplinary traditions underlying their use. While since the 1980s the social construction of "vulnerability" as a driver for disaster received considerable attention, in recent years we have seen increased attention to people's capacities and resilience. The currently popular "complexity" approach to risk moreover appears to offer ways of breaking through entrenched vulnerabilities. Resilience however is also a political project which, we argue, also has its dark, conservative overtones and overlooks structural sources of vulnerability that continue to affect hazard-prone actors. We may therefore need to conceive resilience as the potential for social transformation after disaster.
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title The politics of vulnerability and resilience
spellingShingle The politics of vulnerability and resilience
Frerks,Georg
vulnerability
resilience
title_short The politics of vulnerability and resilience
title_full The politics of vulnerability and resilience
title_fullStr The politics of vulnerability and resilience
title_full_unstemmed The politics of vulnerability and resilience
title_sort The politics of vulnerability and resilience
author Frerks,Georg
author_facet Frerks,Georg
Warner,Jeroen
Weijs,Bart
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Weijs,Bart
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Warner,Jeroen
Weijs,Bart
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resilience
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resilience
description Much conceptual confusion exists over the concepts of vulnerability and (social) resilience, reinforced by the different paradigms (the article identifies four) and disciplinary traditions underlying their use. While since the 1980s the social construction of "vulnerability" as a driver for disaster received considerable attention, in recent years we have seen increased attention to people's capacities and resilience. The currently popular "complexity" approach to risk moreover appears to offer ways of breaking through entrenched vulnerabilities. Resilience however is also a political project which, we argue, also has its dark, conservative overtones and overlooks structural sources of vulnerability that continue to affect hazard-prone actors. We may therefore need to conceive resilience as the potential for social transformation after disaster.
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