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Assembling Resilience - II

Wed, September 4, 4:30 to 6:00pm, Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Floor: Five, Grand Chenier

Abstract

In the last few years, particularly with the encouragement of high-profile initiatives like the Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities program, resilience plans have appeared in settings around the world. A range of urban and regional interventions—from flood barriers and green infrastructure to community development programs and habitat restoration projects—are now being instituted under the banner of resilience. Meanwhile, urban and regional futures are tied to the resilience of broader infrastructures, systems of water, energy, or finance, for example. We may now therefore be in a position to move beyond conceptual discussions of resilience and empirical studies of what makes certain systems resilient to investigate resilience as an emerging technopolitical terrain of urban government. This double panel explores emerging resilience initiatives--both within cities and in relation to broader infrastructures that will shape climate adaptation in cities and beyond. Employing the tools of STS and the social studies of finance, it will ask: (1) what are the forms of expert knowledge and practices that are enlisted in resilience initiatives? (2) what administrative, regulatory, and statutory mechanisms do they mobilize? (3) what circuits of finance and forms of valuations are being used to fund these initiatives and to place value upon them? (4) what publics and counter-publics are emerging around particular urban interventions? This panel is organized in collaboration with Limn magazine (https://limn.it/) and will facilitate participation in a planned issue on the subject.

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