Introduction: An Agenda for Resilience Research in Politics and International Relations

Brassett, James; Croft, Stuart; Vaughan‐Williams, Nick

doi:10.1111/1467-9256.12032

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“…advocate for an expansion of how we understand resilience in order to acknowledge its complexity. One research question they propose is “how might the resilience agenda be occupied in different ways to suggest other ways of understanding the problem, for example, through tradition or emotion” (Brassett, Croft and Nick :225).…”

Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Everyday Resilience as Resistance: Palestinian Women PracticingSumud

Ryan

2015

Int Polit Sociol

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This article contributes a different approach to discussions of resilience and resistance by arguing that within the current literature, there is too little attention to how communities may engage in their own resilience building without outside intervention or interference. Further, this article will argue that the literature which poses resilience as fundamentally different from resistance overlooks the ways in which resilience can be seen as a tactic of resistance through the lens of infrapolitics. The article uses the Palestinian example of sumud to illustrate these two points. Sumud is a tactic of resistance to the Israeli occupation that relies upon adaptation to the difficulties of life under occupation, staying in the territories despite hardship, and asserting Palestinian culture and identity in response to Zionist claims which posit Israelis as the sole legitimate inhabitants of the land. Sumud represents a “resilient resistance”—a tactic of resistance that relies on qualities of resilience such as getting by and adapting to shock. Thinking about sumud as a form of resilient resistance challenges the resilience literature to engage with a greater variety of forms of resilience.

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Section: Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Everyday Resilience as Resistance: Palestinian Women PracticingSumud

Ryan

2015

Int Polit Sociol

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“…The resilience literature recognises the importance of considering the implications of when crises outweigh local capacity and there is a need for a multi-level response across borders and tiers of governance (see, e.g. Brassett et al, 2013). There is general agreement in the literature that local-or state-centric studies of crisis, emergency management, security and risk ('t Hart et al, 1993) need to adapt their analytical frames to consider multi-level systems (Coaffee, 2013, p. 245).…”

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“…There are studies which consider crisis management, resilience and risk in the context of UK public policy (e.g. McConnell, 2003;Drennan and McConnell, 2006;Brassett et al, 2013), however, there are very few case-based research studies which illustrate crisis and disaster governance challenges from the perspective of those institutions and policy actors that are responsible for managing such "wicked problems" from a macro-level policy position. From a public policy point of view, pandemics represent challenges that are unstructured, relentless and cross-cutting -all hallmarks of a wicked problem (Weber and Khademian, 2008, p. 336).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “wicked problems” of governing UK health security disaster prevention

Connolly

2015

Disaster Prevention and Management

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the governance and policy-making challenges in the context of "wicked problems" based on the case of pandemic influenza. Design/methodology/approach -The case study research is based on an analysis of official documentation and interviews with policy elites at multiple levels of UK governance. Findings -Results of this study show that policy actors regard risk communication, the dynamics of international public policy and UK territorial governance as the main governance challenges in the management of influenza at a macro-level. The paper also serves to identify that although contingencies management for epidemiological issues require technical and scientific considerations to feature in governance arrangements, equally there are key "wicked problems" in the context public policy that pervade the health security sector. Practical implications -The study indicates the need to build in resources at a national level to plan for policy coordination challenges in areas that might at first be seen as devoid of political machinations (such as technical areas of public policy that might be underpinned by epidemiological processes). The identification of the major governance challenges that emerge from the pandemic influenza case study is a springboard for a research agenda in relation to the analysis of the parallels and paradoxes of governance challenges for health security across EU member states. Originality/value -This paper provides a novel interrogation of the pandemic influenza case study in the context of UK governance and public policy by providing a strategic policy lens from perspective of elites.

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“…As significant as these insights are, there have been calls to investigate the pluralities of resilience (Brassett et al, 2013;Dunn Cavelty et al, 2015). Asking whether the resilient subject is only ever 'programmed', this article offers a closer, empirical look at how the supposed self-organization comes about.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exercising emergencies: Resilience, affect and acting out security

Kaufmann

2015

Security Dialogue

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The idea of the complex emergency has given rise to the notion of resilience as a form of acting out security. While security policies largely embrace the concept of resilience, critical scholarship points to the 'responsibilization' of the threatened subject, who is 'programmed' to act out security in a fashion that internalizes neoliberal values. This behaviour is trained through disciplinary practices, such as exercises, that seek to conduct the conduct of disaster populations. However, is the resilient subject only ever an instance of programmes and disciplinary power? This article takes a look at how self-organization comes about and how this process can be conceptualized through affect. It uses the setting of a cyber-security exercise to describe the dynamic interplay between affect and re/action. Building on Spinoza's understanding of affect as the onset for action, the article discusses what affect theory contributes to resilience theory. It concludes that, as a form of acting out security, resilience incorporates both 'programmed' and 'self-determined' actions. Both forms of acting, however, imply that the resilient subject has no choice but to act out security. Given this fundamental restraint, powerlessness as the incapacity to act appears as one of the few instances that escape the governmental logic of resilience.

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Introduction: An Agenda for Resilience Research in Politics and International Relations

Cited by 112 publications

References 33 publications

Everyday Resilience as Resistance: Palestinian Women PracticingSumud

Everyday Resilience as Resistance: Palestinian Women PracticingSumud

The “wicked problems” of governing UK health security disaster prevention

Exercising emergencies: Resilience, affect and acting out security

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