Abstract
Tidball, K. G. 2014. Seeing the forest for the trees: hybridity and social-ecological symbols, rituals and resilience in postdisaster contexts. Ecology and Society 19(4): 25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06903-190425
Highlights
Recent explorations of the role of community-based natural resources management, in the form of “greening” after large scale system shocks and surprises (Tidball and Krasny 2013) argue that the multiple benefits of engagement with other living elements of social-ecological systems confers resilience at multiple scales
In so doing I suggest that the hybrid symbol of the tree, the ritual of tree planting as a form of concurrent social-ecological recovery processes, and the resulting feedbacks and virtuous cycles contribute to socialecological system (SES) resilience at multiple scales in postdisaster contexts
The relationship between humans and trees, the symbolic meanings of trees as objects and the meanings associated with their planting and care in the wake of a disaster, and the implication of these symbols and interactions on the resilience of perturbed SES is the subject of this paper
Summary
Recent explorations of the role of community-based natural resources management, in the form of “greening” after large scale system shocks and surprises (Tidball and Krasny 2013) argue that the multiple benefits of engagement with other living elements of social-ecological systems confers resilience at multiple scales. I address material and nonmaterial cultural dimensions of socialecological resilience via trees and tree planting, e.g. symbols, values, identities, and rituals, in the context of disaster, and suggest framing these dimensions in terms of the notion of hybridity. In so doing I suggest that the hybrid symbol of the tree, the ritual of tree planting as a form of concurrent social-ecological recovery processes, and the resulting feedbacks and virtuous cycles contribute to SES resilience at multiple scales in postdisaster contexts. I present a selective discussion of theories about symbols and rituals, especially related to trees With these literature reviews and theoretical concepts in hand, I briefly present three cases where the hybrid symbols of trees appeared in potent ways in postdisaster contexts.
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