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PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 253-270Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512454775
Keywords
communities; ecology; resilience; resourcefulness; social relations
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This paper provides a theoretical and political critique of how the concept of resilience has been applied to places. It is based upon three main points. First, the ecological concept of resilience is conservative when applied to social relations. Second, resilience is externally defined by state agencies and expert knowledge. Third, a concern with the resilience of places is misplaced in terms of spatial scale, since the processes which shape resilience operate primary at the scale of capitalist social relations. In place of resilience, we offer the concept of resourcefulness as an alternative approach for community groups to foster.
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