Resilience Unwanted: Between Control and Cooperation in Disaster Response
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Resilience Unwanted : Between Control and Cooperation in Disaster Response. / Krüger, Marco; Albris, Kristoffer.
In: Security Dialogue, Vol. 52, No. 4, 2021, p. 343-360.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Resilience Unwanted
T2 - Between Control and Cooperation in Disaster Response
AU - Krüger, Marco
AU - Albris, Kristoffer
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article conceptualizes resilience as an emergent and contingent practice that shapes societal relationships in unexpected ways. It focuses on the case of the 2013 floods in Dresden, a city that witnessed three major floods within 11 years. Emergent volunteer activities on the ground and on social media played a significant role during the flood emergency response efforts. Drawing on Philippe Bourbeau’s definition of resilience as a process of patterned adjustment, the article regards these emergent structures as incidentsof resilience. In the case of Dresden, not only was resilience not explicitly requested by the state, but it was in several incidents actively not wanted. While most of the volunteering activities arising from social media platforms intended to support the disaster management authorities, the case shows how subversive formsof resilience were mobilized to resist official plans. They finally urged authorities to adapt to a new social and technological reality in order to render unaffiliated volunteering governable. Resilience thus emerges as an adaptive process that shapes and is shaped by societal relations. The article thus seeks to add anotherfacet to the debate on resilience by demonstrating how resilience helps us to make sense of complex and interdependent adaptation processes.
AB - This article conceptualizes resilience as an emergent and contingent practice that shapes societal relationships in unexpected ways. It focuses on the case of the 2013 floods in Dresden, a city that witnessed three major floods within 11 years. Emergent volunteer activities on the ground and on social media played a significant role during the flood emergency response efforts. Drawing on Philippe Bourbeau’s definition of resilience as a process of patterned adjustment, the article regards these emergent structures as incidentsof resilience. In the case of Dresden, not only was resilience not explicitly requested by the state, but it was in several incidents actively not wanted. While most of the volunteering activities arising from social media platforms intended to support the disaster management authorities, the case shows how subversive formsof resilience were mobilized to resist official plans. They finally urged authorities to adapt to a new social and technological reality in order to render unaffiliated volunteering governable. Resilience thus emerges as an adaptive process that shapes and is shaped by societal relations. The article thus seeks to add anotherfacet to the debate on resilience by demonstrating how resilience helps us to make sense of complex and interdependent adaptation processes.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - adaptation
KW - complexity
KW - disaster
KW - governance
KW - resilience
KW - voulunteering
KW - Adaptation
KW - complexity
KW - disaster
KW - governance
KW - resilience
KW - volunteering
U2 - 10.1177%2F0967010620952606
DO - 10.1177%2F0967010620952606
M3 - Journal article
VL - 52
SP - 343
EP - 360
JO - Security Dialogue
JF - Security Dialogue
SN - 0967-0106
IS - 4
ER -
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