What Resilience Is Not: Uses and Abuses
By M. Reghezza-Zitt, S. Rufat, Géraldine Djament-Tran, A. Blanc, S. Lhomme. 2012
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A fashionable concept, resilience is now a must in both academic research and management. However, its polysemy nourishes many debates on its uses, heuristics and operational relevance. The purpose of this article is not to bring these debates to a close. Starting from a cross-disciplinary state of the art, we point out the incompatibilities between certain meanings and uses of the term. These inconsistencies raise theoretical issues, leading some researchers to reject the term for that matter, especially those outside the cindynics field. The analysis of the concept also brings out some methodological pitfalls. These are evident when attempting to translate theory into operational terms. Resilience is indeed seen as a promising response to recurrent difficulties in risk management. Nevertheless, it solves them only partially and produces new ones. Lastly, its implementation involves ethical and political risks. The injunction to resilience that seems to prevail internationally is in fact implying a number of moral and ideological assumptions which are not always clearly stated and remain serious issues.
Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Toward more flood resilience: is a diversification of flood risk management strategies the way forward? (2016, unknown): “It is a difficult and perhaps fuzzy term, because it includes both stability (resistance to change) and change (adaptability) components (Reghezza-Zitt et al. 2012, Wiering et al. 2015).”
- Resilience and why it matters for farm management (2014, background): “…that it is not constructive to abuse references to resilience to support political constructions of adaptability that display a one-sided emphasis on the farmers’ ability to face crises, thereby putting the focus on individual responsibility (Reghezza-Zitt et al. 2012:49-51; Davoudi 2012:305).”
- Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey (2013, background): “Thus, Comfort et al. (2001), Park (2011) and Reghezza-Zitt et al. (2012) are all suspicious that resilience is being used as little more than a fashionable buzz-word.”