Kevin Grove

Gebundenes Buch

Resilience

Beschreibung

Resilience offers an advanced introduction the conceptual and theoretical tools necessary to engage with political and ethical questions about how we can and should live together in an increasingly interconnected and unpredictable world.

Autor

Kevin Grove is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781138949027
• ISBN-10: 1138949027
• Artikelnr.: 52527254

Rezensionen

"Tracing its precursors in ecology, cybernetics and neoliberal thinking in this incisive text, Kevin Grove offers an innovative genealogy of resilience in contemporary social theory and policy practice. Refusing to either wholeheartedly endorse or reject this widely used formulation, this volume teases out its complexities in a well structured explication that offers an important guide to this essentially contested concept." - Professor Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada


"Resilience is a highly contested zeitgeist that has been adopted by a range of policy and practice communities as a way of thinking about and managing risks, crises and future

uncertainties. This invaluable guide goes beyond the usual critiques of resilience and advances new and historically-informed ways of thinking about resilience concepts and approaches that question what it means to 'design' resilience in holistic and collaborative ways in order to thrive and survive in our interconnected and unpredictable world." - Jon Coaffee, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Warwick, UK

"Kevin Grove's Resilience is a crucial, disruptive intervention in scholarship on resilience. By outlining how resilience thinking is entwined with not just neoliberalism but the increasingly pervasive style of thought he calls 'a will to design', Grove's insightful book opens up multiple new vistas about uncertainty, truth, critique, design and control, as well as resilience itself. Highly sophisticated and highly enjoyable, this book offers numerous lightbulb moments for all of us grappling with how to understand and contribute to the world in spite of its daunting complexity and troubles." - Dr Lauren Rickards, Associate Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia