Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage
ABSTRACTResilience has become increasingly popular in sustainability research and practice as a way to describe change. Within this discourse, the notion of resilience as the capacity of people, practices and processes, to persist, adapt or transform is particularly salient. The ability to bounce ba...
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| description | ABSTRACTResilience has become increasingly popular in sustainability research and practice as a way to describe change. Within this discourse, the notion of resilience as the capacity of people, practices and processes, to persist, adapt or transform is particularly salient. The ability to bounce back from shock (persistence) or to take adaptive measures to cope with change are most commonly attributed to resilience, but at the same time, there is a strong push for a transformation agenda from various social and environmental movements. How capacities for resilience are enacted and performed through social practices remains relatively underexplored and there is potential for more dialogue and learning across disciplinary traditions. In this article, we outline the ‘Resilience Capacities Framework’ as a way to a) explicitly address questions of agency in how resilience capacities are enacted and b) account for the dynamic interactions between pathways of persistence, adaptation and transformation. Our starting point is to conceptualise future pathways as co-evolved, whereby social and ecological relationships are shaped through processes of selection, variation and retention, enacted in everyday practices. Drawing on theories of bricolage and structuration, we elaborate on the role of actors as bricoleurs, consciously and non-consciously shaping socio-ecological relationships and pathways of change. Informed by cases of rural change from mountain areas, we explore the extent to which an approach focusing on agency and bricolage can illuminate how the enactment of resilience capacities shapes intersecting pathways of change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9bc4a453a41499babda82c11cb398da2023-12-20T00:08:51ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEcosystems and People2639-59082639-59162023-12-0119110.1080/26395916.2023.2240434Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolageL. Jamila Haider0Frances Cleaver1Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UKABSTRACTResilience has become increasingly popular in sustainability research and practice as a way to describe change. Within this discourse, the notion of resilience as the capacity of people, practices and processes, to persist, adapt or transform is particularly salient. The ability to bounce back from shock (persistence) or to take adaptive measures to cope with change are most commonly attributed to resilience, but at the same time, there is a strong push for a transformation agenda from various social and environmental movements. How capacities for resilience are enacted and performed through social practices remains relatively underexplored and there is potential for more dialogue and learning across disciplinary traditions. In this article, we outline the ‘Resilience Capacities Framework’ as a way to a) explicitly address questions of agency in how resilience capacities are enacted and b) account for the dynamic interactions between pathways of persistence, adaptation and transformation. Our starting point is to conceptualise future pathways as co-evolved, whereby social and ecological relationships are shaped through processes of selection, variation and retention, enacted in everyday practices. Drawing on theories of bricolage and structuration, we elaborate on the role of actors as bricoleurs, consciously and non-consciously shaping socio-ecological relationships and pathways of change. Informed by cases of rural change from mountain areas, we explore the extent to which an approach focusing on agency and bricolage can illuminate how the enactment of resilience capacities shapes intersecting pathways of change.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/26395916.2023.2240434Jessica CockburnResiliencesustainable developmenttransformationadaptationagricultural change |
| spellingShingle | L. Jamila Haider Frances Cleaver Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage Ecosystems and People Jessica Cockburn Resilience sustainable development transformation adaptation agricultural change |
| title | Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage |
| title_full | Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage |
| title_fullStr | Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage |
| title_short | Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage |
| title_sort | capacities for resilience persisting adapting and transforming through bricolage |
| topic | Jessica Cockburn Resilience sustainable development transformation adaptation agricultural change |
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