Rethinking resilience
South Africa and self-reliance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3638458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janeke Thumbran (0000-0002-3854-5511, Rhodes University, corresponding author), Ruth Sacks (0000-0002-0987-1959, University of Johannesburg) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-15 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533952.2022.2054145 |
| OpenAlex | W4223575363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article, as the introduction to the Rethinking Resilience special issue, lays out the political and historical terrain of thinking with resilience, from South Africa, in 2021. It outlines the urgencies of the current moment, while delving into how the use of “resilience” has been adapted from scientific disciplines into various fields and broader popular culture. We discuss the two primary interlinking and overlapping themes of Rethinking Resilience: resilience as a historical and contemporary governance discourse with consequences and implications; and resilience as a concept tied to the Anthropocene along with the material properties of matter. As colonial and apartheid histories reveal, certain parts of the population have always been assumed to have more resilience than others, demonstrating how, in the present day, it is marginalised communities who are tasked with being resilient in order to survive. It is this assumption that the black gendered body has an innate natural facility to overcome all obstacles that also resonates with anthropocentric thinking. Through discussing these two overlapping themes, this special issue introduction shows how we bring together work that reveals the slippages in resilience, highlighting how the different uses and meanings of resilience can be productive
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Corporate governance · Environmental ethics · Geography · Management · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Law · Resilience and Mental Health · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species?
Race Otherwise
Varieties of Resilience
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Democracy's Infrastructure
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Resistance and the Social History of Africa
The Black feminist spatial imagination and an intersectional environmental justice
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Through Comparative Studies and Theory Development
Bureaucracy and Race
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |