What Resilience Is Not: Uses and Abuses

Reghezza-Zitt, Magali; Rufat, Samuel; Djament-Tran, Géraldine; Le Blanc, Antoine; Lhomme, Serge

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.4000/cybergeo.25554

Title :

What Resilience Is Not: Uses and Abuses

Author(s) :

Reghezza-Zitt, Magali [Auteur]
Département de géographie - ENS-PSL [Géographie et Territoires]
Rufat, Samuel [Auteur]
Laboratoire Mobilités, Réseaux, Territoires, Environnements [MRTE]
Djament-Tran, Géraldine [Auteur]
Laboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement [LIVE]
Le Blanc, Antoine [Auteur]

Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société - ULR 4477 [TVES]
Lhomme, Serge [Auteur]
LAB'URBA [LAB'URBA]

Journal title :

Cybergeo : Revue européenne de géographie / European journal of geography

Publisher :

UMR 8504 Géographie-cités

Publication date :

2012-10-18

ISSN :

1278-3366

English keyword(s) :

vulnerability
resilience
hazards
ideological assumptions
methodological pitfalls

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Géographie

English abstract : [en]

A fashionable concept, resilience is now a must in both academic research and management. However, its polysemy nourishes many debates on its uses, heuristics and operational relevance. The purpose of this article is not ...
Show more >A fashionable concept, resilience is now a must in both academic research and management. However, its polysemy nourishes many debates on its uses, heuristics and operational relevance. The purpose of this article is not to bring these debates to a close. Starting from a cross-disciplinary state of the art, we point out the incompatibilities between certain meanings and uses of the term. These inconsistencies raise theoretical issues, leading some researchers to reject the term for that matter, especially those outside the cindynics field. The analysis of the concept also brings out some methodological pitfalls. These are evident when attempting to translate theory into operational terms. Resilience is indeed seen as a promising response to recurrent difficulties in risk management. Nevertheless, it solves them only partially and produces new ones. Lastly, its implementation involves ethical and political risks. The injunction to resilience that seems to prevail internationally is in fact implying a number of moral and ideological assumptions which are not always clearly stated and remain serious issues.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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