“Somehow, a City”: Unsettling Urban Resilience Narratives

Susie O'Brien

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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2023): Special Issue: The Ruptured Commons

“Somehow, a City”: Unsettling Urban Resilience Narratives

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Soumise: mai 15, 2024
Publié-e: 2024-05-21

Références

Ansfield, Bench. “Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment.” Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, edited by Katherine McKittrick, Duke UP, 2015, pp. 124-41.
Basseler, Michael. “Stories of Dangerous Life in a Post-Trauma Age: Toward a Critical Narratology of Resilience.” Narrative in Culture, edited by Astrid Erll and Roy Sommer, De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 15-36.
Brown, Wynna, et al. “City of Toronto in Partnership with 100 Resilient Cities Appoints Elliott Cappell as Toronto’s First Chief Resilience Officer.” News release. City of Toronto, www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-in-partnership-with-100-resilient-citiesappoints-
elliott-cappell-as-toronto-s-first-chief-resilience-officer/.
Cappell, Elliott. “Making Toronto a Resilient City.” Interview with Steve Paikin. The Agenda, 12 Sept. 2017. www.tvo.org/transcript/2462441/making-toronto-a-resilient-city.
Chariandy, David. Brother. McClelland and Stewart, 2017.
Coleman, Daniel. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.
Dorries, Heather, et al. “Racial Capitalism and the Production of Settler Colonial Cities.” Geoforum, vol. 132, 2022, pp. 263-70.
Evans, Brad, and Julian Reid. Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously. Polity Press, 2014.
Fitzgibbon, Joanne, and Carrie L. Mitchell. “Just Urban Futures? Exploring Equity in ‘100 Resilient Cities.’” World Development, vol. 122, 2019, pp. 648-59.
Galderisi, Adriana, Glada Limongi, and Konstantina-Dimitra Salata. “Strengths and Weaknesses of the 100 Resilience Cities Initiative in Southern Europe: Rome and Athens’ Experiences.” City, Territory and Architecture, vol. 7, no. 16, pp. 1-22.
Garmezy, Norman. “The Study of Competence in Children at Risk for Severe Psychopathology.” The Child in His Family: Children at Psychiatric Risk, 3rd ed., edited by James Anthony and Cyrille Koupernik, Wiley, 1974, pp. 77-97.
Holling, C.S. “Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, vol. 4, 1973, pp. 1-24.
Joseph, Jonathan. “Resilience as Embedded Neoliberalism: A Governmentality Approach.” Resilience, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013, pp. 38-52.
Kanji, Azeezah, and A.J. Withers. “Encampment Evictions: Another Face of Colonial Violence in Canada.” Al Jazeera, 22 July 2021, www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/20/encampment-evictions-another-face-of-colonial-violence-in-canada.
Kashef, Mohamad. “Urban Livability across Disciplinary and Professional Boundaries.” Frontiers of Architectural Research, vol. 5, 2016, pp. 239-53.
King, Thomas. Introduction. All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Native Fiction, McClelland and Stewart, 1990, pp. ix-xvi.
Laforme, Douglas. “What Could Canada Have Been if the Treaty Process Was Fair?” Torontoist, 7 June 2017, https://torontoist.com/2017/06/canada-treaty-process-fair/.
Lee, Michael. “What We Know about the Network System Failure that Led to the Rogers Outage.” CTV News, 12 July 2022, www.ctvnews.ca/business/what-we-know-aboutthe-network-system-failure-that-led-to-the-rogers-outage-1.5982790.
Leggatt, Judith. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.
—. “Re: Your Question in ACLALS Discussion.” Email to the author, 21 July 2022.
Lousley, Cheryl. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.
MacKinnon, Danny, and Kate Driscoll Derickson. “From Resilience to Resourcefulness: A Critique of Resilience Policy and Activism.” Progress in Human Geography, vol. 37, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-18.
Maynard, Robyn, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living. Haymarket, 2022.
McArthur, Jenny, and Enora Robin. “Victims of Their Own (Definition of) Success: Urban Discourse and Expert Knowledge Production in the Liveable City.” Urban Studies, vol. 56, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1711-28.
Mohamud, Jamilla. “Anti-Black Racism in the Liveable City and Canada.” Ontario Professional Planners Institute, 1 July 2020, ontarioplanners.ca/blog/planning-exchange/july-2020/anti-black-racism-in-the-liveable-city-and-canada.
Resilient People: Joe, Husam and Keosha. YouTube. Uploaded by City of Toronto, 4 March 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3ToRGf3EI.
Robertson, Becky. “Toronto Parks Will Have 24/7 Security This Summer to Prevent Tent Encampments.” blogTO, May 2022, www.blogto.com/city/2022/05/toronto-parks-247-security-summer-tent-encampments/.
Robin, Libby. “Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Biography.” Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities, edited by Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman, Routledge, 2014, pp. 45-63.
Rockefeller Foundation. “Our History.” Rockefeller Foundation, www.rockefellerfoundation.org/about-us/our-history/.
Sandhar, Jason. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.
Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke UP, 2017.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.
—. “Big Water.” This Accident of Being Lost, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. House of Anansi, 2017, pp. 65-68.
Sutherland, Catherine, et al. “Constructing Resilience at Three Scales: The 100 Resilient Cities Programme, Durban’s Resilience Journey and Water Resilience in the Palmiet Catchment.” Human Geography, vol. 12, no. 1, 2019, pp. 33-49.
Thomas, Destiny. “Opinion: Urbanism Is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism — and Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment.” Streetsblog, USA, 27 July 2020, usa.streetsblog.org/2020/07/27/opinion-urbanism-is-complicit-in-infra-structuralracism-
and-reparations-have-a-place-in-the-built-environment/.
—. “‘Safe Streets’ Are not Safe for Black Lives.” Bloomberg, 8 June 2020, www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/-safe-streets-are-not-safe-for-black-lives.
Tierney, Kathleen. “Resilience and the Neoliberal Project: Discourses, Critiques, Practices — and Katrina.” American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 59, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1327-42.
Toronto’s First Resilience Strategy. Resilience Office, City of Toronto, June 2019, www.toronto.ca/ext/digital_comm/pdfs/resilience-office/toronto-resilience-strategy.pdf.
United Nations Office for Disaster and Risk Reduction. Building Urban Resilience with Nature: A Practitioner’s Guide to Action. PreventionWeb, November 2018, www.preventionweb.net/publication/building-urban-resilience-nature-practitioners-guide-action.
Walker, Jeremy, and Melinda Cooper. “Genealogies of Resilience: From Systems Ecology to the Political Economy of Crisis Adaptation.” Security Dialogues, vol. 42, no. 2, 2011, pp. 143-61.
Warner, Emmy E. “Resilience in Development.” Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 4, no. 3, 1995, pp. 81-85.
Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Settler Colonialism, Ecology and Environmental Injustice.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research, vol. 9, 2018, pp. 125-44.
Wolfe, David A. “The Strategic Management of Core Cities: Path Dependence and Economic Adjustment in Resilient Regions.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 139-52.
Zebrowski, Christopher. The Value of Resilience: Securing Life in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2015.

Comment citer

O’Brien, S. (2024). “Somehow, a City”: Unsettling Urban Resilience Narratives. Études En littérature Canadienne, 48(1), 15–37. Consulté à l’adresse https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/34165

Mention de droit d'auteur

[1] Ansfield, Bench. “Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment.” Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, edited by Katherine McKittrick, Duke UP, 2015, pp. 124-41.

[2] Basseler, Michael. “Stories of Dangerous Life in a Post-Trauma Age: Toward a Critical Narratology of Resilience.” Narrative in Culture, edited by Astrid Erll and Roy Sommer, De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 15-36.

[3] Brown, Wynna, et al. “City of Toronto in Partnership with 100 Resilient Cities Appoints Elliott Cappell as Toronto’s First Chief Resilience Officer.” News release. City of Toronto, www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-in-partnership-with-100-resilient-citiesappoints-

[4] elliott-cappell-as-toronto-s-first-chief-resilience-officer/.

[5] Cappell, Elliott. “Making Toronto a Resilient City.” Interview with Steve Paikin. The Agenda, 12 Sept. 2017. www.tvo.org/transcript/2462441/making-toronto-a-resilient-city.

[6] Chariandy, David. Brother. McClelland and Stewart, 2017.

[7] Coleman, Daniel. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.

[8] Dorries, Heather, et al. “Racial Capitalism and the Production of Settler Colonial Cities.” Geoforum, vol. 132, 2022, pp. 263-70.

[9] Evans, Brad, and Julian Reid. Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously. Polity Press, 2014.

[10] Fitzgibbon, Joanne, and Carrie L. Mitchell. “Just Urban Futures? Exploring Equity in ‘100 Resilient Cities.’” World Development, vol. 122, 2019, pp. 648-59.

[11] Galderisi, Adriana, Glada Limongi, and Konstantina-Dimitra Salata. “Strengths and Weaknesses of the 100 Resilience Cities Initiative in Southern Europe: Rome and Athens’ Experiences.” City, Territory and Architecture, vol. 7, no. 16, pp. 1-22.

[12] Garmezy, Norman. “The Study of Competence in Children at Risk for Severe Psychopathology.” The Child in His Family: Children at Psychiatric Risk, 3rd ed., edited by James Anthony and Cyrille Koupernik, Wiley, 1974, pp. 77-97.

[13] Holling, C.S. “Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, vol. 4, 1973, pp. 1-24.

[14] Joseph, Jonathan. “Resilience as Embedded Neoliberalism: A Governmentality Approach.” Resilience, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013, pp. 38-52.

[15] Kanji, Azeezah, and A.J. Withers. “Encampment Evictions: Another Face of Colonial Violence in Canada.” Al Jazeera, 22 July 2021, www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/20/encampment-evictions-another-face-of-colonial-violence-in-canada.

[16] Kashef, Mohamad. “Urban Livability across Disciplinary and Professional Boundaries.” Frontiers of Architectural Research, vol. 5, 2016, pp. 239-53.

[17] King, Thomas. Introduction. All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Native Fiction, McClelland and Stewart, 1990, pp. ix-xvi.

[18] Laforme, Douglas. “What Could Canada Have Been if the Treaty Process Was Fair?” Torontoist, 7 June 2017, https://torontoist.com/2017/06/canada-treaty-process-fair/.

[19] Lee, Michael. “What We Know about the Network System Failure that Led to the Rogers Outage.” CTV News, 12 July 2022, www.ctvnews.ca/business/what-we-know-aboutthe-network-system-failure-that-led-to-the-rogers-outage-1.5982790.

[20] Leggatt, Judith. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.

[21] —. “Re: Your Question in ACLALS Discussion.” Email to the author, 21 July 2022.

[22] Lousley, Cheryl. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.

[23] MacKinnon, Danny, and Kate Driscoll Derickson. “From Resilience to Resourcefulness: A Critique of Resilience Policy and Activism.” Progress in Human Geography, vol. 37, no. 2, 2012, pp. 1-18.

[24] Maynard, Robyn, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living. Haymarket, 2022.

[25] McArthur, Jenny, and Enora Robin. “Victims of Their Own (Definition of) Success: Urban Discourse and Expert Knowledge Production in the Liveable City.” Urban Studies, vol. 56, no. 9, 2019, pp. 1711-28.

[26] Mohamud, Jamilla. “Anti-Black Racism in the Liveable City and Canada.” Ontario Professional Planners Institute, 1 July 2020, ontarioplanners.ca/blog/planning-exchange/july-2020/anti-black-racism-in-the-liveable-city-and-canada.

[27] Resilient People: Joe, Husam and Keosha. YouTube. Uploaded by City of Toronto, 4 March 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz3ToRGf3EI.

[28] Robertson, Becky. “Toronto Parks Will Have 24/7 Security This Summer to Prevent Tent Encampments.” blogTO, May 2022, www.blogto.com/city/2022/05/toronto-parks-247-security-summer-tent-encampments/.

[29] Robin, Libby. “Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Biography.” Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities, edited by Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman, Routledge, 2014, pp. 45-63.

[30] Rockefeller Foundation. “Our History.” Rockefeller Foundation, www.rockefellerfoundation.org/about-us/our-history/.

[31] Sandhar, Jason. Discussion following Susie O’Brien, “‘Somehow a City’: Unsettling Urban Resilience.” Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Toronto Metropolitan University, 13 July 2022.

[32] Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke UP, 2017.

[33] Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance. U of Minnesota P, 2017.

[34] —. “Big Water.” This Accident of Being Lost, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. House of Anansi, 2017, pp. 65-68.

[35] Sutherland, Catherine, et al. “Constructing Resilience at Three Scales: The 100 Resilient Cities Programme, Durban’s Resilience Journey and Water Resilience in the Palmiet Catchment.” Human Geography, vol. 12, no. 1, 2019, pp. 33-49.

[36] Thomas, Destiny. “Opinion: Urbanism Is Complicit in Infra-Structural Racism — and Reparations Have a Place in the Built Environment.” Streetsblog, USA, 27 July 2020, usa.streetsblog.org/2020/07/27/opinion-urbanism-is-complicit-in-infra-structuralracism-

[37] and-reparations-have-a-place-in-the-built-environment/.

[38] —. “‘Safe Streets’ Are not Safe for Black Lives.” Bloomberg, 8 June 2020, www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/-safe-streets-are-not-safe-for-black-lives.

[39] Tierney, Kathleen. “Resilience and the Neoliberal Project: Discourses, Critiques, Practices — and Katrina.” American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 59, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1327-42.

[40] Toronto’s First Resilience Strategy. Resilience Office, City of Toronto, June 2019, www.toronto.ca/ext/digital_comm/pdfs/resilience-office/toronto-resilience-strategy.pdf.

[41] United Nations Office for Disaster and Risk Reduction. Building Urban Resilience with Nature: A Practitioner’s Guide to Action. PreventionWeb, November 2018, www.preventionweb.net/publication/building-urban-resilience-nature-practitioners-guide-action.

[42] Walker, Jeremy, and Melinda Cooper. “Genealogies of Resilience: From Systems Ecology to the Political Economy of Crisis Adaptation.” Security Dialogues, vol. 42, no. 2, 2011, pp. 143-61.

[43] Warner, Emmy E. “Resilience in Development.” Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 4, no. 3, 1995, pp. 81-85.

[44] Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Settler Colonialism, Ecology and Environmental Injustice.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research, vol. 9, 2018, pp. 125-44.

[45] Wolfe, David A. “The Strategic Management of Core Cities: Path Dependence and Economic Adjustment in Resilient Regions.” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 139-52.

[46] Zebrowski, Christopher. The Value of Resilience: Securing Life in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge, 2015.