1st Edition

Community Resilience A Critical Approach

By Katy Wright Copyright 2022
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity. Based on the idea that resilience is more than simply an invention of neoliberal governments, this book explores diverse expressions of resilience and considers what supports and... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Resilience

3. Risk

4. Community, Cohesion and Organisations

5. Preparation and Planning

6. Response and Recovery

7. Adaptation and transformation

8. Community Resilience in the Covid-19 Pandemic

9. Conclusion

Biography

Katy Wright is Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She is the Programme Director of the MA in Social & Public Policy and the Deputy Director of the Bauman Institute and of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Methodology.