The Resilience Machine (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bohland, Jim; Lawrence, Jennifer; Davoudi, Simin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By exploring the ways in which the concept of resilience is institutionalized within policies and practices that impact the lived experience of individuals, the book addresses how the regressive potentials of resilience might be resisted and reshaped and how its progressive potentials might be drawn upon in pursuit of justice and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351211178
• Artikelnr.: 56836243

Autorenporträt

James Bohland is Research Team Leader on the social and political dimensions of resilience at the Global Forum for Urban and Regional Resilience, and is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He is the former vice president and executive director of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region Operations and former director of School of Public and International Affairs. Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning and Director of Global Urban Research Unit at Newcastle University. She has held visiting professorships at universities in the USA, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia and Finland. Her research centres on politics of urban planning, securitisation of nature, resilience and governmentality of unknowns. Selected books include: The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning and Sustainability (2019), Justice and Fairness in the City (2016), Reconsidering Localism (2015) and Conceptions of Space and Place (2009). Jennifer Lawrence is a post-doctoral research associate with the Global Forum on Resilience, Virginia Tech. Her research explores the assemblage of extractive governance, by drawing out tensions between chronic and acute socio-environmental disasters. Her scholarship is conducted from a problem-centred, theory-driven methodology and highlights the intersection of economic systems, resource extraction and socio-environmental (in)justice. She is also the editor of Biopolitical Disaster (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. Anatomy of the Resilience Machine Chapter 2.
Securing the Imagination: The Politics of the Resilient Self Chapter 3.
Designing 'Smart' Bodies: Molecular Manipulation as a Resilience-Building
Strategy Chapter 4. Organising Community Resilience Chapter 5. Rejecting
and Recreating Resilience After Disaster Chapter 6. The Resonance and
Possibilities of Community Resilience Chapter 7. Adaptation Machines, or
the Biopolitics of Adaptation Chapter 8. The Resilient City: Where Do We Go
from Here? Chapter 9. Towards a Critical Political Geography of Resilience
Machines in Urban Planning Chapter 10. Resilience and Justice: Planning for
New York City Chapter 11. Seeking the Good (Enough) City Chapter 12.
Dismantling the Resilience Machine as a Restoration Engine