Resilience, Acceptability and the Postcolonial Moment: Towards a Culture-Sensitive Approach to Security Research in Maritime Contexts

Abstract

This paper explores the role of the culture-specific dynamics that underlie present-day processes of knowledge and technology transfer from the Global North to the Global South. Drawing on resilience as a concept that is apt to bridge the disciplinary divide between the social as well as the natural and engineering sciences, and framing it as an acceptability-oriented issue, the authors aim to expand the debate on responsible technology transfer into the realm of maritime security research. By bringing different conceptualisations of resilience into conversation with critical postcolonial theory, the paper further contributes to the scholarly discussion on interdisciplinarity in postcolonial Science and Technology Studies.