In this talk Dr. Derickson will argue that the concept of resilience is inadequate for promoting social justice in and for historically marginalized communities and propose the concept of “resourcefulness” as an alternative frame. Resourcefulness, as she uses it, serves as both a normative ideal and an ethical practice of scholarly research. Based on collaborative work with communities in Glasgow, Scotland and Atlanta, Georgia, she illustrates the ways in which such communities are meaningfully disadvantaged in terms of shaping urban and environmental futures, and argue that knowledge production practices should be explicitly aimed at remediating those disadvantages.