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CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 97-113Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0261018312439365
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economic crisis; gender; poverty; UK
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This paper critically engages with a recent shift towards an emphasis on 'resilience' in policy and academic fields. The paper suggests that this shift is problematic for several reasons: that it supports normative value judgements; that it may overemphasize the ability of people to 'bounce back' and undervalue the hidden costs of resilience, especially those with gendered dimensions; and that it may be associated with policy prescriptions that shift responsibility for dealing with crisis away from the public sphere. The empirical illustration for this analysis is a qualitative study of the impact of economic decline in the Sussex town of Newhaven.
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