Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 52-65.DOI: 10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2023.04.006

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Community Resilience:Structural Tension and Adaptation in Community Risk Governance

ZHAO Shiyu   

  1. (Department of Sociology andCulturology,Party School of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of CPC (Zhejiang Institute of Administration),Hangzhou 311121,China)
  • Online:2023-07-01 Published:2023-08-17

Abstract: In the face of the disturbance and impact of modern social risks,improving community resi-lience is an important path choice for community risk governance reform,and it is also the meaning of promoting the modernization of grass-roots governance in the new era.Different from the understanding of resilience in the Western discourse system,which advocates reducing government intervention and unilaterally emphasizes the responsibility of community and individual governance,community resilience in China's governance environment is generated by the policy resource network centered on streets and neighborhood committees and the interaction of risk governance among various stake-holders,that is,the risk resistance of community governance structure is the key to the formation of community resilience.At the current stage,Chinese communities are highly dependent on means of risk governance such as vertical administrative resource absorption,emergency backstop of neighborhood committees,and strong political mobilization,and the community governance structure has long presented internal tensions such as "resource allocation internal","subject participation differential" and "governance system mutual exclusion",which frequently lead to the governance dilemma of risk sharing failure and lack of community resilience.In view of this,it is urgent to take measures such as promoting scientific redundancy,building a collaborative governance pattern,improving the linkage disposal mechanism,and consolidating the foundation of resilience culture as a response,so as to promote the structural adjustment and functional optimization of communities under risk situations.In this way,we can effectively resolve the inherent tension in the community governance structure and systematically improve the resilience level of communities.

Key words: community resilience, structural tension, community risk governance, modernization of social governance

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