Community Resilience and Placemaking through Translocal Networking. Learning from Thailand and the Philippines

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ID19486039
AuthorsAstrid Ley (0000-0002-7297-8214, University of Stuttgart, corresponding author)
Year2019
Issue4 n. 2 | 2019 | FULL ISSUE
Pages165-178
Publication date2019-09-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Public Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2206-9658 • E-ISSN: 2206-9658
PublisherCity Space Architecture (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.32891/jps.v4i2.1208
OpenAlexW2993739006
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited27

Research on community resilience has historically focused strongly on the local features of communities which in support of and display resilient behaviour in times of stress and in the face of a range of shocks. However, the argument presented in this paper is that both prior organisation — often within the realm of public space belonging to a community — and connectivity beyond the locality which reaches the international level, need to be taken into consideration as significant aspects of community resilience. Last but not least, organisation across spatial levels provides a new understanding of the role of public space. For instance, organised communities in Asia facilitate remedial responses to multiple risks that their local environment poses such as poor living conditions, neglected public spaces and the threat posed by natural or climate-change related disasters. These communities are self-organised and rooted locally which aids in creating alliances and supporting recovery actions led by the local authorities: all of which serve to lessen the gravity of these challenges. Public space often provides the opportunity for prior organisation. These collective actions are simultaneously place-based and embedded in transnational networks such as ‘Shack/Slum Dwellers International’ (SDI) or the ‘Asian Coalition for Housing Rights’ (ACHR). This account does not aspire to justify a shift of responsibilities from the state to collective actors. Instead, it seeks to contribute to an emerging analytical framework on translocal social resilience

Community resilience · Economic growth · Economics · Locality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Public space · Public sphere · Realm · Slum · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Law · Social Psychology

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