Resilience and ‘technicity’: challenges and opportunities for new knowledge practices in disaster planning

Jon, Ihnji 2018. Resilience and ‘technicity’: challenges and opportunities for new knowledge practices in disaster planning. International Policies, Practices and Discourses 7 (2) 10.1080/21693293.2018.1461481

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Abstract

With increasing exposure to environmental catastrophes and natural hazards, the terminology of ‘resilience’ is becoming ubiquitous in the planning field. As a part of this continuing discussion, this paper examines how the concept of resilience has been used in disaster planning, especially with a focus on the creation and use of knowledge to ‘build resilience’ in response to potential future natural hazard events. In discussing the practice of creating and using knowledge in disaster planning, I draw insights from the interdisciplinary critical studies of science and technology literature, which has been developing rich discussions on the challenges we face in producing geographical knowledge. I demonstrate in this paper how resilience theory can be linked with the concept of ‘technicity’ used in the virtual geography literature, and how that association can have meaningful implications for the production and application of knowledge in disaster planning.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	2169-3293
Last Modified:	13 Oct 2022 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153306

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