Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 32, Issue -, Pages 175-186Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.007
Keywords
Liberal resilience; Development; The market imperative; Vulnerability; Rural Asia
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- NERC [NE/J01995X/1]
- ESRC [NE/J01995X/1]
- EPSRC
- ESRC
- IAS
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J019895/1, NE/J016322/1, NE/J01995X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/J016322/1, NE/J01995X/1, NE/J019895/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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'Resilience' is the catchword of the moment. For many of the mainstream institutions of international development, building resilience is embedded in a wider commitment to market liberalism. Taking three entry points, the sectoral, spatial and socio-governmental, this paper critically explores the connections, interdependencies and tensions between social resilience and the market imperative. The paper argues that 'liberal resilience' plays into a growth-development-resilience 'trap' wherein economic growth has become a de facto synonym for development and, often, development a synonym for resilience. Drawing on empirical cases from across rural Asia we highlight the incongruities and inconsistencies in this line of logic. The paper suggests that there is a need to critically judge the market mechanism and the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which the processes that have been set in train by market integration impinge on resilience. (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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