Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres

Resilience is one of the most important concepts in contemporary sociology. This volume offers a broad overview over the different theories and concepts of this category focusing on the cultural and political aspects of resilience. Contents: theoretical considerations, resilience discourses, and case studies. Target groups for this volume are lecturers and students in the fields of political, cultural and social sciences. The editors: Dr. Benjamin Rampp is a research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier; Dr. Martin Endreß is a Professor for General Sociology at the University of Trier; and Marie Naumann is a research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: Resilience as a Perspective for the Analysis of Societal Processes (Marie Naumann, Benjamin Rampp, Martin Endreß)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Resilience Constructions: How to Make the Differences Between Theoretical Concepts Visible? (Stefan Böschen, Claudia R. Binder, Andreas Rathgeber)....Pages 11-39 The Socio-Historical Constructiveness of Resilience (Martin Endreß)....Pages 41-58 The Question of ‘Identity’ in Resilience Research. Considerations from a Sociological Point of View (Benjamin Rampp)....Pages 59-76 Resilience from the Perspective of the Theory of Symbolic Forms (Martin Voss)....Pages 77-102 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 The Resilience Discourse: How a Concept from Ecology Could Overcome the Boundaries Between Academic Disciplines and Society (Michael Meyen, Janina Schier)....Pages 105-120 Resilient Cities: Theoretical Conceptualisations and Observations About the Discourse in the Social and the Planning Sciences (Gabriela Christmann, Heiderose Kilper, Oliver Ibert)....Pages 121-147 The Emergence of Resilience in German Policy Making: An Anglo-Saxon Phenomenon? (Jonathan Joseph)....Pages 149-166 Resilience, Resistance, Infrapolitics and Enmeshment (Philippe Bourbeau, Caitlin Ryan)....Pages 167-189 The Imaginary of Resilience: Trauma, Struggle, Life (Julian Reid)....Pages 191-206 Front Matter ....Pages 207-207 Building Community Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Study of International Policy Experiments with Digital Technology in Jakarta (David Chandler)....Pages 209-229 Resilience as a Security Programme: The Janus Faced Guiding Principle (Stefan Kaufmann)....Pages 231-247 Chances of ‘Resilience’ as a Concept for Sociological Poverty Research (Markus Promberger, Lars Meier, Frank Sowa, Marie Boost)....Pages 249-278 Utilization of Resilience in German Development Policy—An Objective-Hermeneutical Analysis Exemplified by the Case of Welthungerhilfe (Marie Naumann)....Pages 279-303 Cultural Resilience as the Resilience of a Distinctness. Distinctness from What? for What? (François Bousquet, Raphaël Mathevet)....Pages 305-321 Resilience through social cohesion: A case study on the role of organizations (Bo Tackenberg, Tim Lukas)....Pages 323-344