Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.18192/potentia.v4i0.4391
Susan Khazaeli, A. Kochanski
The 2012 edition of Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs aims to bridge the supposed divide between theory and practice. We welcomed submissions that contained theoretical puzzles as well as those that spoke directly to substantive policy concerns on a wide range of issues, especially those that examined the relationship between academic research and ideas on one hand, and domestic and international policy on the other. L’édition 2012 de Potentia visent à combler le soi-disant fossé entre la théorie et la pratique. Nous avons sélectionné un éventail de contributions allant de cassetêtes théoriques aux multiples préoccupations de la sphère politique, tout en favorisant les questions touchant les relations entre la recherche universitaire et le monde des idées ainsi que les liens entre la politique domestique et internationale.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.18192/potentia.v10i0.4509
Khaled Al-Kassimi
Despite the ascendancy of the concept of resilience in political sociology, its criticism has also expanded. In both theory and practice, this paper seeks to unpack and critically explore how resilience as embedded neoliberal governmentality permeates U.S. research in issues relating to natural environmental disasters. By highlighting the neoliberal (resilient) politics of recovery situated in two environmental disasters – Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey – this paper highlights that both pre-disaster and post-disaster recovery realities contrast starkly with the “high-minded” claims of resilience being a form of “emancipatory” resistance. Rather than being identified as natural disasters, both hurricanes are identified as voluntary failures revealing how resilience discourse was used to masquerade opportunity, subjugation, exploitation, and capital accumulation by privatepublic/state-nonstate actors. Both hurricane responses highlight that resilience embedded with a laissez-faire logic privileged types of solutions that directly hindered affected communities “bouncing back”. The third and final sections analyze an alternative conceptualization of resilience pioneered in Cuba which the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) encouraged risk-reduction experts to emulate as a way forward in responding to natural environmental disasters.
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