While some communities appear to blossom in the wake of a disaster, others are left to struggle in the ashes. This paper introduces the concept of ‘conspicuous resilience’ to understand how emergent community-based recovery efforts privilege some needs while marginalising others, contributing to uneven forms of recovery. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the deadly Montecito debris flow in Southern California, United States, in January 2018, an in-depth examination of emergent community-based resilience efforts is gauged next to the social construction of unmet needs. Conspicuous acts of resilience centred around gaps in social and financial support as well as desires for protection from future debris flows. In defining and addressing needs, community-based interventions mirrored existing social inequalities and uneven relationships of power, promoting a false sense of equality and security while reinforcing private interests. To address the limits of conspicuous resilience, a justice-oriented politics of disaster recovery is needed.

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反思灾难乌托邦：基于社区的恢复和适应的显着恢复力的局限性

虽然一些社区似乎在灾难过后蓬勃发展，但其他社区却在灰烬中挣扎。本文介绍了“显着恢复力”的概念，以了解基于社区的紧急恢复工作如何优先考虑某些需求而同时边缘化其他需求，从而导致不均衡的恢复形式。借鉴 2018 年 1 月美国南加州致命的 Montecito 泥石流的定性案例研究，在未满足需求的社会建设旁边，对紧急的基于社区的恢复力工作进行了深入审查。显着的恢复力行为围绕着社会和财政支持的差距以及保护免受未来泥石流侵害的愿望。在定义和解决需求时，基于社区的干预反映了现有的社会不平等和不平衡的权力关系，助长虚假的平等和安全感，同时强化私人利益。为了解决显着弹性的局限性，需要一种以正义为导向的灾难恢复政治。