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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
This paper attempts to decolonise resilience thinking/practices to mitigate cyclonic disasters in Sundarban by focusing on historical anecdotes of localized adaptive strategies highlighting community resilience, critiquing mismanagement, and advocating for more inclusive strategies in tAnthropocene.
Paper long abstract:
This paper attempts to decolonise the conceptual and analytical approaches utilised in studying the Sundarban to challenge mainstream Western and colonial viewpoints on resilience. It redirects the emphasis to historical stories of localised resilience experienced by the Anthropocene's marginal population. The research reconstructs the meaning of resilience by examining the locals' knowledge, survival, loss, and adaptation to understand the aspects that contribute to their community's durability or collapse when hit by a disaster and interpret in more localised art and creative involvement like painting, mapping, poetry, folk theatre. The study thus employs a decolonial-participatory approach, with locals serving as collaborators and interpreters throughout the study process.
The research investigates the multitude of expressions of catastrophic cyclonic experiences indicative of the Anthropocene. It emphasizes the shiftingemphasisesamics and the visible nature of post-disaster reconstruction, emphasizing how the collect emphasising and direct participation of local actors and communities carve out autonomous spaces of involvement in developing adaptive strategies and coping mechanisms. The critique also targets local administrations' and political parties' mismanagement of the Sundarbans' economic and ecological resources and biodiversity- allocating profits for few over others- reconstructing the notion of the 'tragedy of commons' perpetuated by non-commoners.
Overall, the study sheds light on the creative identity resilience of marginalized communities' existing power dynamics and offers ideas for more inclusive and effective ways of resilience-building in the Anthropocene.
The Environment Around Us: Relational Approaches as Common Ground
Session 3 Wednesday 21 August, 2024, -