Getting the Resilience Right
Climate Change and Development Policy in the 'African Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5834832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mikulewicz (0000-0003-3734-7529, Glasgow Caledonian University, corresponding author), Marcus Taylor (0000-0003-0944-601X, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 626-641 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-3467 • E-ISSN: 1469-9923 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13563467.2019.1625317 |
| OpenAlex | W2957803981 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 65 |
Founded on a call to place climate change adaptation and climate risk management at the heart of contemporary development practice, the World Bank's Africa Climate Business Plan presents an ambitious agenda for coordinating $19bn of loans, grants and investment over the coming decade. The centrepiece of this recasting of development thinking is the notion of resilience, which ties together the various activities proposed under the Plan. Resilience must respectively be strengthened, empowered and enabled in order for African countries to withstand climate change impacts. In this paper we subject this new climate-resilient development discourse to critical scrutiny. Using the theoretical lens of post-politics, we caution how the ill-defined category of resilience is deployed to reinforce a profoundly depoliticising agenda in which climate change is posited as an external threat to an otherwise seamless narrative of African advancement. In so doing, we illustrate how the Bank obscures the contested histories of African development and uses the discourse of climate-resilient development to perpetuate its neoliberal agenda within the continent
Climate resilience · Resilience · Scrutiny · International Development and Aid · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Flood resilience and infrastructural subjectivities in the bas quartiers of Antananarivo, Madagascar
Transformational adaptation from the bottom-up
Diverse pathways to climate change adaptation through a postdevelopment lens
The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund
The Multilateral Development Banks and Rural Climate Finance
Climate Change Education, Globalisation and the Nation State
Competing causalities
Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding
Climate-changed development
Reactive, Individualistic and Disciplinary
Capitalizing on crises
Urban flood resilience
Understanding resilience in sustainable development
Situated adaptation
Constructing the adaptation economy
Public and Private Financing of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Global environmental change II
Informal institutions and “Imperfect Equity” in internationally financed adaptation in Madagascar and Mauritius
From absences to emergences
The Wall Street Consensus in pandemic times
Neoliberalism, Climate Change, and Displaced and Homeless Populations
Resisting Post‐Political Adaptation to Climate Change
The politics of expertise in building back better
Between deficit rains and surplus populations
Poverty finance and the durable contradictions of colonial capitalism
Disintegrating labour relations and depoliticised adaptation to climate change in rural São Tomé and Príncipe
The business of climate change
The Modern Slavery‐Climate Change Nexus
Distributional energy justice and the inclusive human development Agenda in Africa
What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty
Resilience, Critique and the Limits of Geographic Thought in the Anthropocene
Thwarting adaptation's potential? A critique of resilience and climate-resilient development
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
Reimagining climate-informed development
Building Slavery-free Communities
Insurantialization and the moral economy ofex anterisk management in the Caribbean
Uneven resilience and everyday adaptation
How Europe underdeveloped Africa
Nature
Principles for Building Resilience
Politicizing vulnerability and adaptation
Interrogating the technocratic (neoliberal) agenda for agricultural development and hunger alleviation in Africa
Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries
Depoliticized Environments
Anti-Politics Machine
Creating Capabilities
The Neoliberal Subject
The Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation
Dreamscapes of Modernity
Rule of Experts
Political power and renewable energy futures
The relevance of political ecology perspectives for smallholder Climate-Smart Agriculture
Imagining renewable energy
Climate Justice Politics across Space and Scale
Governing Food and Agriculture in a Warming World
Climate change adaptation and development I
Climate change, poverty and livelihoods
Climate change and social vulnerability
The World Bank, Hydropower-based Poverty Alleviation and Indigenous Peoples
Adventures in Aidland. The anthropology of professionals in international development
Old wine, new bottles? Investigating the differential adoption of ‘climate-smart’ agricultural practices in western Kenya
The necessity of a multiscalar analysis of climate justice
Resilience thinking meets social theory
From a marginalised to an emerging Africa? A critical analysis
Africa rising
Dependency redux
Contemporary Contradictions of the Global Development Project
Displacing Insecurity in a Divided World
Economic faith, Social project and a misreading of African society
Articulating Climate Justice in Copenhagen
Containing the Atom
Climate change and post-politics
Counterinsurgency for wind energy
Uncertainty and the epistemic dimension of democratic deliberation in climate change adaptation
Extending a Geographic Lens Towards Climate Justice, Part 1
Reducing the Future to Climate
Searching for 'the political' in environmental politics
Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems
RevisitingKlima
(Re)imagining Agrarian Relations? TheWorld Development Report 2008
Climate Change, Conflict and Development in Sudan
Africa
A New Climate for Society
Apocalypse Forever
Exit from agriculture
Triple wins' or 'triple faults'? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA)
Contested landscapes
Climate-smart agriculture
The potential perils of forest carbon contracts for developing countries
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |