Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh

Despite wide recognition of the role of social learning in building community resilience, few studies have thus far analyzed how the power-knowledge-institution matrix shapes social learning processes that in turn foster resilience outcomes. Drawing insights from the biopolitical lens of resilience,...

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Autores principales:	Mahed-Ul-Islam Choudhury, C. Emdad. Haque, Ainun Nishat, Sean Byrne
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2021
Materias:	bangladesh community resilience cyclone disasters indigenous knowledge local knowledge power social learning social memory Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:857efcb5888a449d8c6b1344a2ba28a72021-12-02T14:37:54ZSocial learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh1708-308710.5751/ES-12107-260105https://doaj.org/article/857efcb5888a449d8c6b1344a2ba28a72021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss1/art5/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Despite wide recognition of the role of social learning in building community resilience, few studies have thus far analyzed how the power-knowledge-institution matrix shapes social learning processes that in turn foster resilience outcomes. Drawing insights from the biopolitical lens of resilience, we take a critical stance on programmatic interventions for community resilience and social learning, arguing that local knowledge, beliefs, practices, and social memory (SM) are crucial elements in social learning processes for building community resilience to shocks and stresses. In addition, we explore how technologies shape social learning processes and build or strengthen community resilience. Our research, conducted in cyclone-prone coastal zones of Bangladesh, adopts a transformative interpretive framework (TIF) and a community-based participatory approach to empirical investigation. Findings of our research provide evidence that formal institutions frequently exclude indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) from social learning processes, and often subjugate communities to notions of resilience, as defined by nonlocals, that perceive people as subjects of institutional power and objects of scientific knowledge, rather than as active agents. We further found that local communities are able to obtain early warnings of cyclones through ILK of environmental phenomena, such as changing water temperature and animal behavior. Despite an abundance of ILK regarding past cyclones, the 2007 Cyclone Sidr was a surprising event to many and caused considerable loss of life and property. Much of this unpreparedness stemmed from an overall SM deficit - a key to translating knowledge into action. We recommend strengthening efforts to bridge scientific-technical knowledge and ILK to ensure effective social-learning-led resilience outcomes are achieved.Mahed-Ul-Islam ChoudhuryC. Emdad. HaqueAinun NishatSean ByrneResilience Alliancearticlebangladeshcommunity resiliencecyclonedisastersindigenous knowledgelocal knowledgepowersocial learningsocial memoryBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 26, Iss 1, p 5 (2021)
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topic	bangladesh community resilience cyclone disasters indigenous knowledge local knowledge power social learning social memory Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	bangladesh community resilience cyclone disasters indigenous knowledge local knowledge power social learning social memory Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Mahed-Ul-Islam Choudhury C. Emdad. Haque Ainun Nishat Sean Byrne Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh
description	Despite wide recognition of the role of social learning in building community resilience, few studies have thus far analyzed how the power-knowledge-institution matrix shapes social learning processes that in turn foster resilience outcomes. Drawing insights from the biopolitical lens of resilience, we take a critical stance on programmatic interventions for community resilience and social learning, arguing that local knowledge, beliefs, practices, and social memory (SM) are crucial elements in social learning processes for building community resilience to shocks and stresses. In addition, we explore how technologies shape social learning processes and build or strengthen community resilience. Our research, conducted in cyclone-prone coastal zones of Bangladesh, adopts a transformative interpretive framework (TIF) and a community-based participatory approach to empirical investigation. Findings of our research provide evidence that formal institutions frequently exclude indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) from social learning processes, and often subjugate communities to notions of resilience, as defined by nonlocals, that perceive people as subjects of institutional power and objects of scientific knowledge, rather than as active agents. We further found that local communities are able to obtain early warnings of cyclones through ILK of environmental phenomena, such as changing water temperature and animal behavior. Despite an abundance of ILK regarding past cyclones, the 2007 Cyclone Sidr was a surprising event to many and caused considerable loss of life and property. Much of this unpreparedness stemmed from an overall SM deficit - a key to translating knowledge into action. We recommend strengthening efforts to bridge scientific-technical knowledge and ILK to ensure effective social-learning-led resilience outcomes are achieved.
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author	Mahed-Ul-Islam Choudhury C. Emdad. Haque Ainun Nishat Sean Byrne
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title	Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh
title_short	Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh
title_full	Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh
title_fullStr	Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed	Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh
title_sort	social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal bangladesh
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Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh

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