1st Edition
The Resilience Machine
Introduction
Chapter 1. Anatomy of the Resilience Machine
Simin Davoudi, Jennifer Lawrence and Jim Bohland
Chapter 2. Securing the Imagination: The Politics of the Resilient Self
Julian Reid
Chapter 3. Designing ‘Smart’ Bodies: Molecular Manipulation as a Resilience-Building Strategy
Rebecca J. Hester
Chapter 4. Organising Community Resilience
Chris Zebrowski and Daniel Sage
Chapter 5. Rejecting and Recreating Resilience After Disaster
Raven Cretney
Chapter 6. The Resonance and Possibilities of Community Resilience
Lauren Rickards, Martin Mulligan and Wendy Steele
Chapter 7. Adaptation Machines, or the Biopolitics of Adaptation
Kevin Grove and Jonathan Pugh
Chapter 8. The Resilient City: Where Do We Go from Here?
Peter Rogers
Chapter 9. Towards a Critical Political Geography of Resilience Machines in Urban Planning
Thilo Lang
Chapter 10. Resilience and Justice: Planning for New York City
Susan S. Fainstein
Chapter 11. Seeking the Good (Enough) City
Brendan Gleeson
Chapter 12. Dismantling the Resilience Machine as a Restoration Engine
Timothy W. Luke
Biography
James Bohland is Research Team Leader on the social and political dimensions of resilience at the Global Forum for Urban and Regional Resilience, and is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. He is the former vice president and executive director of Virginia Tech’s National Capital Region Operations and former director of School of Public and International Affairs.
Simin Davoudi is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning and Director of Global Urban Research Unit at Newcastle University. She has held visiting professorships at universities in the USA, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia and Finland. Her research centres on politics of urban planning, securitisation of nature, resilience and governmentality of unknowns. Selected books include: The Routledge Companion to Environmental Planning and Sustainability (2019), Justice and Fairness in the City (2016), Reconsidering Localism (2015) and Conceptions of Space and Place (2009).
Jennifer Lawrence is a post-doctoral research associate with the Global Forum on Resilience, Virginia Tech. Her research explores the assemblage of extractive governance, by drawing out tensions between chronic and acute socio-environmental disasters. Her scholarship is conducted from a problem-centred, theory-driven methodology and highlights the intersection of economic systems, resource extraction and socio-environmental (in)justice. She is also the editor of Biopolitical Disaster (2017).
"A brilliant, empirically rich and theoretically inventive collection, which opens up new perspectives on resilience as a way of governing life itself. Organised around a novel conceptualisation of resilience as a 'machine,' the collection offers a politically incisive examination of the strategies, motivations, and logics that surround different enactments of resilience." -Ben Anderson, Professor of Human Geography, Durham University, UK
"The Resilience Machine provides a unique, timely and indispensable critique of resilience narratives, policies and practices and how these have been shaped by dominant political and economic systems. While providing a much-needed critique of resilience practices which further promote neoliberal priorities, this book and its contributors also demonstrate how critical resilience thinking has the potential to produce desirable socio-spatial and environmental outcomes, providing a potential pathway for transformative and positive change. Bohland, Davoudi and Lawrence have assembled a volume that will have wide multidisciplinary appeal for students and researchers with interests in urban studies, disaster management, planning, community development and sustainability." - Mark Scott, Professor of Planning, University College Dublin, Ireland
