Can Community Resettlement be Considered a Resilient Move? Insights from a Slow-Onset Disaster in the Colombian Andes
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Staupe-Delgado, R. (2019) Can Community Resettlement be Considered a Resilient Move? Insights from a Slow-Onset Disaster in the Colombian Andes. Journal of Development Studies, 56(5). 10.1080/00220388.2019.1626836Abstract
The degree to which communities can best withstand various forms of external stress, as well as what constitutes community resilience has been a matter of debate in discussions of development, resilience building, adaptation and transformation. Drawing on insights from a field expedition to the indigenous reserve of Aponte in the Colombian Andes, this paper engages with the concept of transformational-and community resilience and problematizes the concept focusing particularly on its tendency to assume that disasters are one-off, sudden events that allow for sustainable recovery in their aftermath. Aponte faces complete ruination by a slow-onset geological hazard which has prompted discussions of relocation among other solutions—raising questions of whetherand how resilience can be understood in the context of perpetually worsening conditions of environmental change.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Development Studies on 13th of June 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00220388.2019.1626836