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III. Scope and limitations of resilience theories Flashcards

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Sociology

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Stephen Bunker, Paul Ciccantell

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Human geography

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Tim Forsyth

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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies

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Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law

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Where is the ecology?

Integrated into the materio-spatial framework

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Sociology | Materio-spatial world systems analysis (WSA)

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Where is the ecology?

Biophysical world acknowledged as “real” but can never be fully objectively apprehended

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Human geography | Critical realist political

ecology

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Where is ecology?

Human and nonhuman, including biophysical, actors incorporated into analyses

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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies | Hybrid Perspectives Action-Network Theory

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Assumptions about human-environment relationship:

Conceptual separation of human/society and biophysical world

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Sociology | Materio-spatial world systems analysis (WSA)
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Human geography | Critical realist political
ecology

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Assumptions about human-environment relationship:
“Social” does not exist; relations among humans are always mediated by non-human entities i.e. material, technological, biophysical

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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies | Hybrid Perspectives Action-Network Theory

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Drivers of social change:

Interconnected multi-scalar biophysical and social structures and processes; “flows of energy”

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Sociology | Materio-spatial world systems analysis (WSA)

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Drivers of social change:

Ecological degradation and social inequities exacerbated by environmental orthodoxies

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Human geography | Critical realist political

ecology

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Drivers of social change:

Continuous processes of change that emerge from “acts of translations” in actor-networks

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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies | Hybrid Perspectives Action-Network Theory

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Primary units of analysis and analytical approach:

  • World systems structures and processes
  • Materialist, structuralist analyses
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Sociology | Materio-spatial world systems analysis (WSA)

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Primary units of analysis and analytical approach:

  • Knowledge production and contestation
  • Poststructuralist analyses, within a realist ontology
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Human geography | Critical realist political

ecology

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Primary units of analysis and analytical approach:

  • Actors, humans and nonhumans, and actor-networks
  • Material-semiotic approaches that “follow the actors” and “processes of networking”
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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies | Hybrid Perspectives Action-Network Theory

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Strengths for resilience inquiries:

  • Explicit consideration of biophysical dimensions in understanding social-environmental change
  • Systems approach
  • Long-term, historical perspective
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Sociology | Materio-spatial world systems analysis (WSA)

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Strengths for resilience inquiries:

  • Poststructuralist analysis within a realist ontology
  • Incorporation of issues of power and politics of science
  • Focus on how to improve science for environmental policy and management
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Human geography | Critical realist political

ecology

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Strengths for resilience inquiries:

  • Explicit consideration of both human and nonhuman entities and their role in social-ecological phenomena and change
  • Transcendence of local, regional, and global, and other dualism
  • Network and process (networking) approach
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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies | Hybrid Perspectives Action-Network Theory

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Limitations and challenges for resilience inquiries:

- Somewhat deterministic and reductionist view of human behavior

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Sociology | Materio-spatial world systems analysis (WSA)

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Limitations and challenges for resilience inquiries:

  • Limited analysis of the role of biophysical dimensions in driving change
  • Focus on local contexts may limit the identification of generalizable findings
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Human geography | Critical realist political

ecology

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Limitations and challenges for resilience inquiries:
- Jargon-laden language; difficult to understand and apply
- Individual-level characteristics of people; intangibles; politics/power; and biophysical dimensions not well
incorporated
- Imbalances and differences among actors in a network overlooked

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Sociology - Science and Technology Studies | Hybrid Perspectives Action-Network Theory

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