Enhancing the Analysis of Rural Community Resilience: Evidence from Community land Ownership

Autor/in	Skerratt, Sarah
Titel	Enhancing the Analysis of Rural Community Resilience: Evidence from Community land Ownership
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 31 (2013), S.36-46 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.02.003
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Climate; Social Capital; Resilience (Psychology); Capacity Building; Environmental Influences; Adjustment (to Environment); Change Strategies; Rural Environment; Rural Population; Community Change; Discourse Analysis; Misconceptions; Rural Sociology; United Kingdom (Scotland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Klima; Sozialkapital; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Lösungsstrategie; Ländliches Milieu; Landbevölkerung; Diskursanalyse; Missverständnis; Agrarsoziologie
Abstract	Resilience, and specifically the resilience of (rural) communities, is an increasingly-ubiquitous concept, particularly in the contexts of resistance to shocks, climate change, and environmental disasters. The dominant discourse concerning (community) resilience centres around bounce-back from external shocks. In this paper, I argue that it is necessary to query this dominant, singular conceptualisation for two main reasons. Firstly, through reviewing the international literature, it is possible to construct a spectrum of (community) resilience research concepts from "reactive bounce-back" through to "proactive human agency", where the latter increasingly questions the reactive stance of much community resilience analysis. Secondly, the new findings I present from 17 community land trusts (CLTs) in Scotland demonstrate processes of proactive change being implemented by communities-of-place, rather than simply as reactions to external shocks or events. Communities' aimed-for outcomes are far wider than shock-absorption, and include deliberately building their skills and capacity-base in a context of constant change, rather than in anticipation of singular events. As a result of bringing together empirical findings with a wider review of the resilience literature, I conclude that to persist with only the dominant narrative of a reactive, shock-related definition of (community) resilience unnecessarily constrains our analysis, since it bypasses evident proactive processes and wider adaptability outcomes. I further conclude that we need to continue to problematise resilience as a concept, in order to be more accurate with its usage. This is important in itself, and, I argue, a necessary precursor to enhancing dialogue between resilience and other concepts such as social capital. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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