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Date of Publication: January 19, 2015
Year of Publication: 2015
Publication City: Santa Rosa, CA
Publisher: Post Carbon Institute
Author(s): Rhys Kelly, Ute Kelly
Rhys Kelly and Ute Kelly conducted a survey to gather reflections on ‘resilience’ and “present preliminary themes that emerge from a first reading of [the] survey responses, from related conversations with a range of people, and from [their] own experiences. These themes indicate some of the ways people are using and interpreting the concept of ‘resilience’ in finding responses to questions presented by a context of fragility, crisis, distrust, disillusionment, inequality, violence and abuses of power…”
“…There is, then, a need for continuing personal and collective reflection on whether, and in what contexts, putting the emphasis on resilience may stimulate or marginalise engagement in resistance, on how and when it engenders solidarity, and on the differences between, as one participant put it, ‘selfish resilience and resilience for humanity’.”
Provide your own response to the survey What difference does ‘resilience’ thinking make?.
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