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Reactive, Individualistic and Disciplinary: The Urban Resilience Project in Dhaka
New Political Economy ( IF 3.625 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 , DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2021.1899152
Sarah E. Sharma 1
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ABSTRACT

The World Bank’s Urban Resilience Project (URP) champions resilience as the best response to tackle environmental hazards faced by inhabitants in Dhaka, Bangladesh without sacrificing economic development. Embedded within neoliberal risk management and sustainable development frameworks, the URP supports ongoing forms of urban expansion and densification in Dhaka as the key driver of Bangladesh’s economic growth, purporting that this strategy will enable the city to address increasing and intensifying forms of flooding, heat waves, fires and earthquake risk. This paper argues that the URP depoliticises the causes of and proposed solutions to environmental hazards in Dhaka and the manner in which they are unevenly experienced. Drawing on fieldwork using qualitative methods, this paper posits that three facets guide resilience in Dhaka: reactive neoliberal policies, individualism, and disciplinary control. Ultimately, the URP obfuscates a wider regime of urban development in Dhaka that benefits certain groups (the state, international organisations, elite classes) while further economically and environmentally marginalising those living and working informally. In developing theoretical and empirical contributions to understandings of resilience in global political economy the paper contributes to debates in global political economy and environment, the everyday life of global political economy, and the inter-scalar governance of capitalist societies.



中文翻译:

反应、个人主义和纪律:达卡的城市复原力项目

摘要

世界银行的城市复原力项目 (URP) 将复原力作为应对孟加拉国达卡居民面临的环境危害的最佳对策,同时又不牺牲经济发展。嵌入新自由主义风险管理和可持续发展框架中,URP 支持达卡正在进行的城市扩张和密集化形式,将其作为孟加拉国经济增长的主要驱动力,声称该战略将使该市能够应对日益增多和加剧的洪水、热浪形式、火灾和地震风险。本文认为,URP 将达卡环境危害的原因和建议的解决方案以及它们不均衡地经历的方式去政治化。本文利用使用定性方法进行的实地调查,假设达卡的恢复力由三个方面来指导:反应性新自由主义政策、个人主义和纪律控制。最终,URP 混淆了达卡更广泛的城市发展制度,该制度有利于某些群体(国家、国际组织、精英阶层),同时进一步在经济和环境上使非正规生活和工作的人边缘化。在为理解全球政治经济中的复原力发展理论和经验贡献时,本文为全球政治经济和环境、全球政治经济的日常生活以及资本主义社会的跨标度治理的辩论做出了贡献。精英阶层),同时在经济和环境上进一步边缘化那些以非正式方式生活和工作的人。在为理解全球政治经济中的复原力发展理论和经验贡献时,本文为全球政治经济和环境、全球政治经济的日常生活以及资本主义社会的跨标度治理的辩论做出了贡献。精英阶层),同时在经济和环境上进一步边缘化那些以非正式方式生活和工作的人。在为理解全球政治经济中的复原力发展理论和经验贡献时,本文为全球政治经济和环境、全球政治经济的日常生活以及资本主义社会的跨标度治理的辩论做出了贡献。

更新日期:2021-03-15
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