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Politics of Resilience-Building: Explorations of Community-Based Interventions in Trinidad and Tobago
Summary
Researchers used a decolonial framework and semi-structured interviews with nine governmental and non-governmental actors in Trinidad and Tobago to explore factors shaping community-based climate change resilience. Thematic analysis identified community resilience as driven by bottom-up participatory initiatives emphasizing access, co-creation, and principles counter to top-down technocratic approaches.
As climate change becomes a pressing issue, there are many concerns about the vulnerability and autonomy of small island developing states like the Caribbean, and relatedly, for the meaningfulness of the initiatives that are being designed and implemented to build community resilience. We use a decolonial framework and semi structured interviews with nine governmental and non-governmental community-based climate change actors in Trinidad and Tobago to explore the issues impacting community resilience. Thematic analyses point to community resilience constructions as bottom-up initiatives built on principles of participatory action, access, and co-creation of initiatives. Implications for community-based resilience are also addressed.
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