ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the struggle Paul Nadasdy describes as the conflictual and critical movement of subjugated knowledge from the margins to the center. It discusses the topographical mode of analysis that typifies engineering resilience from the topological sensibilities that inform ecological resilience. The chapter explores how this topological thought was formalized into ecological theories of the adaptive cycle and panarchy. Ecological understandings of resilience emerged during the 1970s and 1980s through a series of studies on predation, environmental degradation and environmental management conducted by C. S. Holling and colleagues. Ecological resilience thus confronts the State science of engineering resilience with the nomad science of morphogenesis, or the emergence of objective and individuated beings out of pre-individual forces. In genealogical terms, resilience proponents' topological approach was a form of subjugated knowledge – an experience and account of environmental change that circulated at the margins of acceptable scientific and management discourse.
