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Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience : a focus on everyday risk

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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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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
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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1 April 2017Published
20 March 2017Available
29 November 2016Accepted
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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