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‘Perception matters’: New insights into the subjective dimension of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crises

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Title ‘Perception matters’: New insights into the subjective dimension of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crises
 
Creator Béné, Christophe
Frankenberger, Timothy
Griffin, Tiffany
Langworthy, Mark
Mueller, Monica
Martin, Stephanie
 
Subject food security
resilience
disasters
development
 
Description In the emerging literature on resilience in relation to food security, a growing number of studies stress the need to expand our analysis beyond conventional socio-economic factors such as assets or social capital, and to consider less tangible elements such as risk perception, self-efficacy or aspiration. Drawing on the recent literature and the authors’ own experience, a conceptual framework of subjective resilience is proposed. The framework helps locating the subjective element of resilience within the wider resilience conceptualization as currently developed in the literature on food security and to clarify how it links to the more tangible elements of that conceptualization. Empirical data are then used to test the framework. The analysis demonstrates the relevance of the concept of subjective resilience and the central role that psychosocial factors and individual perceptions play in people’s construct of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crises. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of those findings.
 
Date 2019-07
2019-08-14T16:43:50Z
2019-08-14T16:43:50Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Béné, Christophe; Frankenberger, Timothy; Griffin, Tiffany; Langworthy, Mark; Mueller, Monica & Martin, Stephanie. (2019). ‘Perception matters’: New insights into the subjective dimension of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crises. Progress in Development Studies, 19(3): 186-210
1464-9934
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103196
https://doi.org/10.1177/1464993419850304
 
Language en
 
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Open Access
 
Format 186-210
application/pdf
 
Publisher SAGE Publications
 
Source Progress in Development Studies