Bollig, Michael (2014). Resilience - Analytical Tool, Bridging Concept or Development Goal? Anthropological Perspectives on the Use of a Border Object. Z. Ethnol., 139 (2). S. 253 - 280. BERLIN: DIETRICH REIMER VERLAG. ISSN 0044-2666
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The resilience concept has gained much attention during the past two decades. Not only has the concept in its many variations ecological resilience, social resilience, psychological resilience gained prominence in academic publications, but nowadays the development world too is defining resilience as a key goal: in many parts of the Global South, projects addressing the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources have taken on their own specific understanding of resilience as a guideline. Such overwhelming attendance to one single idea has provoked profound critique. The resilience concept has been blamed for depoliticizing social-ecological dynamics, for its functionalist and narrow systems-based analytical perspective, for its neglect of power relations and its non-consideration of agency. This paper critically discusses the uses of the concept in various fields of inquiry and explores anthropological perspectives on different types of resilience. It argues that once the political constitution and socio-cultural embeddedness of 'systems', 'system boundaries' and `stressors' is acknowledged and the gaining of resilience is understood as a political act with particular distributive consequences, the concept can meaningfully contribute to the anthropological understanding of cultural dynamics in general and social-ecological dynamics in particular. Social and psychological resilience are important extensions of resilience thinking. While the concept of social resilience has been developed in correspondence with, though often in outright rejection of, that of ecological resilience, discussions of psychological resilience were not tied to either of the two. The paper explores some ways in which each type of resilience may contribute to anthropological theorizing and discusses how these concepts can meaningfully speak to each other. The paper finally argues that the adoption of the concept 'cultural resilience' may complete resilience thinking within anthropology, shedding a light on the longevity of social institutions and cultural patterns. (290w)
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-452791 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Z. Ethnol. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 139 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 253 - 280 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2014 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | DIETRICH REIMER VERLAG | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | BERLIN | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0044-2666 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45279 |
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