Cultural sensitivity, resilience and localisation
Consciously but more often still unconsciously, daily life is reorganized according to crises and finds in cultural aspects, the means to develop strategies for survival, adaptation and resilience. It is often the cultural determinants that make sense of the crisis and of the future that will never be like the pre-crisis situation. Cultural sensitivity makes it possible to highlight its different elements.
t is often the cultural determinants that make sense of the crisis and of the future that will never be like the pre-crisis situation
Culture and the environment are therefore essential factors in building resilience. They allow to recreate social sense but also to link the past, the present and the future. However, often, local cultures and knowledge are not or barely mentioned in the debates on both resilience and location. They are often limited to details related to the context or specific situations.
Culture and the environment are therefore essential factors in building resilience, which allow to recreate social sense but also to link the past, the present and the futuren
Four categories of cultural determinants are essential to take cultural sensitivity into account in humanitarian or resilience-building projects: relationships and meanings of the environment (nature, heritage, etc.); relationships and social structures (relationships to hierarchy and traditional authorities, household composition, gender relationships, etc.); relationships to the sacred (religions and spiritualities, supernatural, relationships to life and death, etc.) and the management of knowledge and creativity (mode of communication and sharing of information, craft and artistic productions, etc.). Responses to crises are influenced by these four categories which must therefore be taken into account in programming.
