 Enacting Resilience: A Performative Account of Governing for Urban ResilienceHendrik Wagenaar and Cathy Wilkinson Urban Studies, 2015, vol. 52, issue 7, 1265-1284 Abstract: Resilience is an increasingly important urban policy discourse that has been taken up at a rapid pace. Yet there is an apparent gap between the advocacy of social-ecological resilience in scientific literature and its take-up in policy discourse on the one hand, and the demonstrated capacity to govern for resilience in practice on the other. This paper explores this gap by developing a performative account of how social-ecological resilience is dealt with in practice through case study analysis of how protection of biodiversity was negotiated in response to Melbourne’s recent metropolitan planning initiative. It is suggested that a performative account expands the possible opportunities for governing for social-ecological resilience beyond the concept’s use as a metaphor, measurement, cognitive frame or programmatic statement of adaptive management/co-management and has the potential to emerge through what has been called the everyday ‘mangle of practice’ in response to social-ecological feedback inherent to policy processes. Keywords: biodiversity; Melbourne; practice; social-ecological resilience; strategic environmental assessment; strategic spatial planning; urban governance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:52:y:2015:i:7:p:1265-1284 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Urban Studies from Urban Studies Journal Limited |
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