Resilient Community Weavings in Times of Socio-Environmental Crisis: A Situated Approach to Community Resilience
摘要
This chapter proposes a community environmental psychology-based critical approach to community resilience in socio-environmental crisis contexts. It argues that resilience cannot be understood as an individual capacity or a neutral adaptive attribute but rather as a psychosocial, relational, and territorially situated process historically shaped by structures of exclusion, dispossession, and inequality. In contrast to functionalist perspectives, the notion of resilient community weavings is introduced as a key category for analyzing the collective agency processes that emerge on the fringe. It is articulated around three interdependent dimensions—structural, relational, and symbolic—that give shape to these weavings and allow understanding of how communities sustain communal life in contexts of persistent structural precariousness. In addition, the tensions and restrictions that condition these processes are addressed, such as institutional fragility, deteriorated organizational dynamics, and the hegemony of technocratic frameworks that delegitimize territorial knowledge. The chapter argues that moving toward forms of relational autonomy is necessary, in which community capacities are articulated with institutional mechanisms of co-responsibility, redistribution, and territorial justice. At the methodological level, the value of situated strategies that are context-sensitive and guided by participatory principles, conceived as epistemic and ethical commitments, is highlighted. This perspective expands both the analytical scope as well as the practical potential of the concept of community by acknowledging its political dimension and capacity to shape collective capacities for care, resistance, and transformation from the territory.