The Resilience Machine
Coordonnateurs : Bohland Jim, Davoudi Simin, Lawrence Jennifer
We live in a time where environmental pressures, social inequities and political derision are the backdrop of everyday life, and where resilience has become a routine prescription for coping with the conditions of modern existence. Drawing an analogy to Harvey Molotch?s urban growth machine, this book explores different narratives of resilience and their policy and practice manifestations for cities, citizens and communities. It expands on the metaphor of the machine to show how resilience can be better understood as an assemblage.
Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and different parts of the world, the book unmasks the often invisible effects of resilience strategies by examining ways in which neoliberal mentalities are fed through the rhetoric of resilience practices, policies and development projects. The contributing essays provide provocative accounts of several areas of inquiry, including biopolitics and smart bodies, resilient cities and communities, urban planning and disaster management, justice and vulnerability, and resistance to resilience. Holding out hope for critical potentials in ?resilience,? The Resilience Machine proposes to move beyond mechanisms of adaptation and into imagining what resilient life could look like in a more just, equitable and democratic world.
The Resilience Machine is a current, vital addition to resilience, community and urban scholarship.
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
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).
Date de parution : 10-2018
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Thème de The Resilience Machine :
Mots-clés :
Resilience Discourse; community development; Resilience Thinking; sustainability; Urban Growth Machine; resilience; Ethico Aesthetic Paradigms; Jennifer Lawrence; Urban Resilience; Simin Davoudi; Machinic Assemblages; Julian Reid; Resilience Initiatives; Rebecca J; Hester; Resilient Subjects; Chris Zebrowski; Vice Versa; Daniel Sage; Habitat Iii; Raven Cretney; Smart Bodies; Lauren Rickards; Community Resilience; Martin Mulligan; Adaptive Cycles; Wendy Steele; CRO; Kevin Grove; Resilient City; Jonathan Pugh; Social Ecological Systems; Peter Rogers; Growth Machine Thesis; Thilo Lang; Resilience Building Strategies; Susan S; Fainstein; Resilience Programming; Brendan Gleeson; Resilient Subjectivities; Timothy W; Luke; Resilience Strategies; Resilience Alliance; Neoliberal Instrumentalisation; Community Resilience Programmes; De Blasio