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Resilience, Political Ecology, and Power: Convergences, Divergences, and the Potential for a Postanarchist Geographical Imagination
Author(s) -
Mullenite Joshua
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/gec3.12279
Subject(s) - conceptualization , political ecology , politics , ecology , sociology , bridging (networking) , scholarship , environmental social science , political geography , psychological resilience , field (mathematics) , economic geography , geography , social science , environmental ethics , political science , psychology , biology , social psychology , mathematics , computer network , american political science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics , law
Over the past three decades, resilience has emerged as an ecological concept that has transformed the way international development is conceptualized. However, it is only recently that the topic has been approached within the geography literature. In this article, I trace the linkages between resilience as an ecological concept and an emerging framework in political geography, its relationship to the field of political ecology, and the potential of a postanarchist geography in bridging the extant gap between these areas of study. To do this, I focus on the different conceptualizations of power prevalent in resilience scholarship and political ecology and offer a postanarchist conceptualization as a potential bridging point that can address the concerns of both of the fields.