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Governing the resilient city: An empirical analysis of governing techniques
Abstract Resilience is increasingly used as a new discourse for dealing with future shocks, crises and transition in urban governance. Although embraced in policy and academia, resilience is also severely critiqued as a continuation of neo-liberal thinking. To avoid the trap of imposing a meta-narrative on resilience, we argue that resilience should be treated as a ‘matter of empirics’. Using a governmentality lens, we empirically investigate how the resilient city is governed in practice. Based on a multi-sited ethnography of resilience within the city of Rotterdam that joined the 100-RC initiative pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, we identify five governing techniques: anticipating, transcending, laboratizing, monitoring and responsibilizing. Our analysis shows that resilience discourse has the potential to be both progressive and cruel, depending on the techniques used and the interactions between them. Hence, how resilience is shaped not only depends on the individual techniques but also on their entanglements in practice.
Highlights The resilient city contains 5 governing techniques: anticipating, transcending, laboratizing, monitoring, responsibilizing. The way resilience is shaped not only depends on individual techniques but also on the way they are entangled in practice. the way governmental techniques work out in practice can (unintentionally) produce unfair outcomes. The fact that hopeful attempts might have cruel effects, is something to consider when designing the resilient city.
Governing the resilient city: An empirical analysis of governing techniques
Abstract Resilience is increasingly used as a new discourse for dealing with future shocks, crises and transition in urban governance. Although embraced in policy and academia, resilience is also severely critiqued as a continuation of neo-liberal thinking. To avoid the trap of imposing a meta-narrative on resilience, we argue that resilience should be treated as a ‘matter of empirics’. Using a governmentality lens, we empirically investigate how the resilient city is governed in practice. Based on a multi-sited ethnography of resilience within the city of Rotterdam that joined the 100-RC initiative pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, we identify five governing techniques: anticipating, transcending, laboratizing, monitoring and responsibilizing. Our analysis shows that resilience discourse has the potential to be both progressive and cruel, depending on the techniques used and the interactions between them. Hence, how resilience is shaped not only depends on the individual techniques but also on their entanglements in practice.
Highlights The resilient city contains 5 governing techniques: anticipating, transcending, laboratizing, monitoring, responsibilizing. The way resilience is shaped not only depends on individual techniques but also on the way they are entangled in practice. the way governmental techniques work out in practice can (unintentionally) produce unfair outcomes. The fact that hopeful attempts might have cruel effects, is something to consider when designing the resilient city.
Governing the resilient city: An empirical analysis of governing techniques
Huizenga, Sabrina (author) / Oldenhof, Lieke (author) / van de Bovenkamp, Hester (author) / Bal, Roland (author)
Cities ; 135
2023-02-08
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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