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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.
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" The Resilience Machine provides a unique, timely and indispensable critique of resilience narratives, policies and practices and how these have been shaped by dominant political and economic systems. While providing a much-needed critique of resilience practices which further promote neoliberal priorities, this book and its contributors also demonstrate how critical resilience thinking has the potential to produce desirable socio-spatial and environmental outcomes, providing a potential pathway for transformative and positive change. Bohland, Davoudi and Lawrence have assembled a volume that will have wide multidisciplinary appeal for students and researchers with interests in urban studies, disaster management, planning, community development and sustainability." - Mark Scott, Professor of Planning, University College Dublin, Ireland
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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 ...
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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.
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" The Resilience Machine provides a unique, timely and indispensable critique of resilience narratives, policies and practices and how these have been shaped by dominant political and economic systems. While providing a much-needed critique of resilience practices which further promote neoliberal priorities, this book and its contributors also demonstrate how critical resilience thinking has the potential to produce desirable socio-spatial and environmental outcomes, providing a potential pathway for transformative and positive change. Bohland, Davoudi and Lawrence have assembled a volume that will have wide multidisciplinary appeal for students and researchers with interests in urban studies, disaster management, planning, community development and sustainability." - Mark Scott, Professor of Planning, University College Dublin, Ireland
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