Resilience—Peril or promise? Mapping current and future directions in the anthropology of resilience

IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Elise Andaya, Amy Cooper
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Abstract

Resilience is everywhere in contemporary US discourse. In this article, we map anthropological research on resilience and suggest future contributions to resilience studies. To date, anthropological work either uses resilience to describe practices of human survival in adversity or studies resilience as a policy discourse. While anthropologists have long been concerned with human adaptation to adversity, we theorize that resilience discourses hold a particular appeal to a Euro-American middle class newly affected by crisis and precarity. We offer scenes from preliminary fieldwork on resilience discourses in three domains in the United States: middle-class parenting guides, urban governance and future planning in St. Louis and New York City, and the cultural productions of Black and Indigenous activists and artists. Drawing these sites into the same analytic frame reveals how resilience discourses can serve distinct political ends, from accommodation to the status quo to qualified social reform to resistance to socially unjust systems. We conclude with a call for more synthetic and comparative research, greater clarity about the distinctiveness and benefits of resilience over other terminologies, and analyses that consider resilience as both a discourse and a ground-level experience in different global sites.

韧性——危险还是希望?绘制复原力人类学的当前和未来方向
在当代美国话语中,弹性无处不在。在本文中,我们绘制了关于弹性的人类学研究,并提出了未来对弹性研究的贡献。迄今为止,人类学工作要么使用弹性来描述人类在逆境中的生存实践,要么将弹性作为一种政策话语来研究。虽然人类学家长期以来一直关注人类对逆境的适应,但我们的理论认为,弹性话语对刚刚受到危机和不稳定影响的欧美中产阶级具有特别的吸引力。我们提供了对美国三个领域的弹性话语的初步实地考察的场景:中产阶级育儿指南,圣路易斯和纽约市的城市治理和未来规划,以及黑人和土著活动家和艺术家的文化作品。将这些地点纳入相同的分析框架,揭示了弹性话语如何服务于不同的政治目的,从适应现状到合格的社会改革,再到抵制社会不公正的制度。最后,我们呼吁进行更多的综合和比较研究,更清楚地了解复原力相对于其他术语的独特性和益处,并将复原力作为一种话语和全球不同地区的基层经验进行分析。
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American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist ANTHROPOLOGY-
CiteScore
4.30
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11.40%
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114
期刊介绍: American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, reaching well over 12,000 readers with each issue. The journal advances the Association mission through publishing articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings and exhibits.
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