Meeting the ‘Anthropocene’ in the context of intractability and complexity: infusing resilience narratives with intersubjectivity

Neil Powell; Rasmus Klocker Larsen; Severine van Brommel

doi:10.1080/21693293.2014.948324

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Meeting the ‘Anthropocene’ in the context of intractability and complexity: infusing resilience narratives with intersubjectivity

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Meeting the ‘Anthropocene’ in the context of intractability and complexity: infusing resilience narratives with intersubjectivity

Neil Powell, Rasmus Klocker Larsen and Severine van Brommel

Resilience, Vol.2(3), pp.135-150

2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2014.948324

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Environmental Science and Management

wicked problems

epistemology

ontology

resilience

Insufficient attention has been paid to how concepts of resilience can be operationalised in wicked, contested situations. Within the environmental sciences, the contemporary social-ecological resilience narrative is not geared to examining social dilemmas in ill-defined problem contexts. These conditions require a different resilience narrative, one centred on epistemological and ontological considerations. This paper examines four resilience narratives (engineering, social-ecological, epistemic and intersubjective) in order to stimulate an improved awareness of the possibility of more deliberative choices for research and governance in the resilience domain. We argue that the resilience research community needs to be more cognizant of the diversity of resilience narratives in order to empower and learn from the perspectives and local practices of stakeholders, who will often express narratives better aligned to the wicked situation at hand. Ultimately, the resilience narratives of the research community can be little more than toolkits to support greater understanding of the diversity of people, perspectives and 'performances' jointly narrating the 'real' stories of our wicked and contested realities.

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Title: Meeting the ‘Anthropocene’ in the context of intractability and complexity: infusing resilience narratives with intersubjectivity
Authors: Neil Powell (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Rasmus Klocker Larsen (Author) - Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden
Severine van Brommel (Author) - Wageningen University, Netherlands
Publication details: Resilience, Vol.2(3), pp.135-150
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2014
DOI: 10.1080/21693293.2014.948324
ISSN: 2169-3293
Copyright note: Copyright © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450529802621
Output Type: Journal article