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The Resilience Machine

by Jim Bohland
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780815381136
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 52.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 340 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Urban & Land Use Planning and Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

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.

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).

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