The Resilience Machine
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The Resilience Machine

Jim Bohland,Simin Davoudi,Jennifer Lawrence

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The Resilience Machine

Jim Bohland,Simin Davoudi,Jennifer Lawrence

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9781351211161
Edition
1
Topic
Architettura
Subtopic
Pianificazione urbana e paesaggistica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Anatomy of the Resilience Machine
  11. 2. Securing the Imagination: The Politics of the Resilient Self
  12. 3. Designing ‘Smart’ Bodies: Molecular Manipulation as a Resilience-Building Strategy
  13. 4. Organising Community Resilience
  14. 5. Rejecting and Recreating Resilience after Disaster
  15. 6. The Resonance and Possibilities of Community Resilience
  16. 7. Adaptation Machines, or the Biopolitics of Adaptation
  17. 8. The Resilient City: Where Do We Go from Here?
  18. 9. Towards a Critical Political Geography of Resilience Machines in Urban Planning
  19. 10. Resilience and Justice: Planning for New York City
  20. 11. Seeking the Good (Enough) City
  21. 12. Dismantling the Resilience Machine as a Restoration Engine
  22. Index