TY - JOUR
T1 - Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience
T2 - a focus on everyday risk
AU - Ziervogel, Gina
AU - Pelling, Mark
AU - Cartwright, Anton
AU - Chu, Eric
AU - Deshpande, Tanvi
AU - Harris, Leile
AU - Hyams, Keith
AU - Kaunda, Jean
AU - Klaus, Benjamin
AU - Michael, Kavya
AU - Pasquini, Lorena
AU - Pharoah, Robyn
AU - Rodina, Lucy
AU - Scott, Dianne
AU - Zweig, Patricia
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularlyfor urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shapedby policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of theglobal South, particularly African cities, has not been sufficiently assessed. Focusingon rights of urban citizens as the object to be made resilient, rather than physicaland ecological infrastructures, may help to address many of the root causes thatcharacterize the unacceptable risks that urban residents face on a daily basis.Linked to this idea, we discuss four entry points for grounding a rights and justiceorientation for urban resilience. First, notions of resilience must move away fromnarrow, financially oriented risk analyses. Second, opportunities must be createdfor “negotiated resilience”, to allow for attention to processes that support thesegoals, as well as for the integration of diverse interests. Third, achieving resiliencein ways that do justice to the local realities of diverse urban contexts necessitatestaking into account endogenous, locally situated processes, knowledges andnorms. And finally, urban resilience needs to be placed within the context of globalsystems, providing an opportunity for African contributions to help reimagine therole that cities might play in these global financial, political and science processes
AB - Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularlyfor urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shapedby policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of theglobal South, particularly African cities, has not been sufficiently assessed. Focusingon rights of urban citizens as the object to be made resilient, rather than physicaland ecological infrastructures, may help to address many of the root causes thatcharacterize the unacceptable risks that urban residents face on a daily basis.Linked to this idea, we discuss four entry points for grounding a rights and justiceorientation for urban resilience. First, notions of resilience must move away fromnarrow, financially oriented risk analyses. Second, opportunities must be createdfor “negotiated resilience”, to allow for attention to processes that support thesegoals, as well as for the integration of diverse interests. Third, achieving resiliencein ways that do justice to the local realities of diverse urban contexts necessitatestaking into account endogenous, locally situated processes, knowledges andnorms. And finally, urban resilience needs to be placed within the context of globalsystems, providing an opportunity for African contributions to help reimagine therole that cities might play in these global financial, political and science processes
KW - African cities / rights and entitlements / risk / social justice / urban resilience
U2 - 10.1177/0956247816686905
DO - 10.1177/0956247816686905
M3 - Article
SN - 0956-2478
VL - 29
SP - 123
EP - 138
JO - Environment and Urbanization
JF - Environment and Urbanization
IS - 1
ER -