Procesos de resiliencia comunitaria en situación de desastres: estudio de caso de la comunidad de Mapachico Centro de Pasto (Colombia).

Community resilience is a novel construct that allows us to recognize the active role that communities play when facing adversity or collective affectation. That is why this research article aims to analyze the role of community resilience in the face of disasters in a group of inhabitants of the Mapachico community in the center of the city of Pasto. The research was developed from the qualitative paradigm, the phenomenological approach and the type of ethnomethodological study. The results show that the components of collective self-esteem, cultural identity and solidarity favor the reconstruction of the social fabric and shape perceptions of risk, while social humor is emerging as an opportunity to generate community resistance processes. As a conclusion, it can be said that community resilience is expressed as a characteristic that allows the integration and identification of members in social development issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]