Resilience Pivots

Stability and Identity in a Social-Ecological-Cultural System

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4240635
AutoresStephanie J Rotarangi, Stephanie Rotarangi (University of Otago), Jessica Stephenson (0000-0003-1454-524X, University of Otago), Janet Stephenson
Ano2014
Volume19
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoConservation Ecology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087
EditoraResilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.5751/es-06262-190128
OpenAlexW2029463746
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas19

How is cultural resilience achieved in the face of significant social and ecological change? Is resilience compatible with changed structures, functions, and feedbacks as long as identity is maintained? The concept of cultural resilience has been less explored than its older siblings ecological resilience, social resilience, and social-ecological resilience. We seek to redress the balance, drawing from resilience thinking to examine how a New Zealand Mori tribal group of landowners retained strong cultural identity and connectedness to their land despite enduring significant changes in land use, economy, tenure, and governance. The landowners negotiated radical transformations in the ecology and land use of their home lands on terms that supported matters of cultural importance. The key resilience concepts of adaptation and transformation were helpful in analyzing the trajectory of change, but fell short of representing the elements of stability that supported the cultural resilience of the landowners. The concept of resilience pivots was designed to address this conceptual gap, and to offer another heuristic to resilience thinking by focusing on stability rather than change. Resilience pivots are those elements of a resilient system that remain stable despite adaptation or even transformation of other elements of that system, and in doing so support the maintenance of the system's distinctive identity

Biology · Ecological systems theory · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Psychological resilience · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Environmental Science · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology