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Enacting Resilience: A Performative Account of Governing for Urban Resilience

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  • Hendrik Wagenaar
  • Cathy Wilkinson

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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.

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  • Hendrik Wagenaar & Cathy Wilkinson, 2015. "Enacting Resilience: A Performative Account of Governing for Urban Resilience," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(7), pages 1265-1284, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:52:y:2015:i:7:p:1265-1284
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098013505655
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