Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Geography and Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, United Kingdom.
Disasters. 2019 Oct;43(4):818-839. doi: 10.1111/disa.12385. Epub 2019 Jul 19.
This paper investigates empirically how the international aid community (IAC)-donors and practitioners-considers and implements disaster resilience in a specific country setting, Nepal, and throughout the rest of the world. A key finding is that there is ambivalence about a concept that has become a discourse. On a global level, the IAC utilises the discourse of resilience in a cautiously positive manner as a bridging concept. On a national level, it is being used to influence the Government of Nepal, as well as serving as an operational tool of donors. The mythical resilient urban community is fashioned in the IAC's imaginary; understanding how people create communities and what type of linkages with government urban residents desire to develop their resilience strategies is missing, though, from the discussion. Disaster resilience can be viewed as another grand plan to enhance the lives of people. Yet, regrettably, an explicit focus on individuals and their communities is lost in the process.
本文从实证角度研究了国际援助界（IAC）——捐助者和从业者——如何在尼泊尔等特定国家和全球范围内考虑和实施抗灾能力。一个主要发现是，对于一个已经成为话语的概念，存在着矛盾心理。在全球层面，国际援助界谨慎地积极利用抗灾能力话语，将其作为一个衔接概念。在国家层面，它被用来影响尼泊尔政府，并作为捐助者的一个业务工具。在国际援助界的想象中，塑造了神话般的有抗灾能力的城市社区；然而，讨论中却缺失了对人们如何创建社区以及与政府城市居民建立何种联系以增强其抗灾能力战略的理解。抗灾能力可以被视为另一个提升人们生活的宏伟计划。然而，令人遗憾的是，在这个过程中，却失去了对个人及其社区的明确关注。
