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Ziervogel, Gina, Pelling, Mark, Cartwright, Anton, Chu, Eric, Deshpande, Tanvi, Harris, Leila, Hyams, Keith D., Kaunda, Jean, Klaus, Benjamin, Kavya, Michael, Pasquini, Lorena, Pharoah, Robyn, Rodina, Lucy, Scott, Di and Zweig, Patricia (2017) Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience : a focus on everyday risk. Environment and Urbanization, 29 (1). pp. 123-138. doi:10.1177/0956247816686905
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247816686905
Abstract
Resilience building has become a growing policy agenda, particularly for urban risk management. While much of the resilience agenda has been shaped by policies and discourses from the global North, its applicability for cities of the global south, particularly African cities, has not been sufficiently assessed. Focusing on rights of urban citizens as the object to be made resilient, rather than physical and ecological infrastructures, may help to address many of the root causes that characterize the unacceptable risks that urban residents face on a daily basis. Linked to this idea, we discuss four entry points for grounding a rights and justice orientation for urban resilience. First, notions of resilience must move away from narrow, financially-orientated risk analyses. Second, opportunities must be created for “negotiated resilience”, to allow for attention to processes that support these goals, as well as for the integration of diverse interests. Third, achieving resilience in ways that do justice to the local realities of diverse urban contexts necessitates taking into account endogenous, locally situated processes, knowledges and norms. And finally, urban resilience needs to be placed within the context of global systems, providing an opportunity for African contributions to help reimagine the role that cities might play in these global finance, politics and science processes.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | City planning -- Africa, Urban policy -- Africa, Civil rights -- Africa | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Urbanization | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0956-2478 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 April 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 123-138 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0956247816686905 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Funder: | Great Britain. Department for International Development, Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), University of Cape Town | ||||||||
| Grant number: | Urban ARK project number ES/L008777/1 (ESRC) | ||||||||
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