The Value of Resilience - Couverture souple

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Zebrowski, Chris

 
9781138896758: The Value of Resilience
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138896756 ISBN 13 : 9781138896758
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The Value of Resilience represents one of the first systematic studies of resilience in the field of security studies. At the turn of the twenty-first century, resilience has become a 'buzz-word' within fields as diverse as network engineering, ecosystems management, child psychology and military training programmes. Resilience has emerged as a solution to the common problematic of radical contingency experienced across these fields. At its most general level resilience is understood as the capacity to absorb, withstand and 'bounce-back' quickly and efficiently from a perturbation. It is considered to be both a natural property and a quality which can be improved within a broad array of complex systems.

Rather than treating resilience as either a unified concept or technique of governance, this book analyses resilience as an emergent security value. Utilizing a biopolitical analytic, it demonstrates that the value of resilience has appreciated alongside transformations in the order of power/knowledge enacted by political economies of security. Zebrowski argues that resilience was not lying in wait for the march of science to provide the conditions for its recognition. Nor was it concealed by the distortions of ideology which lifted with the culmination of the Cold War. There is nothing natural about resilience.

By drawing attention to the complex historical processes and significant governmental efforts required to make resilience possible, this book aims to open up a space through which the value of resilience may be more critically interrogated. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies and conflict resolution.

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À propos de l'auteur

Chris Zebrowski is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138896756
ISBN 13 
9781138896758
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780415735186: The Value of Resilience: Securing Life in the Twenty-First Century

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415735181 ISBN 13 :  9780415735186
Editeur : Routledge, 2015
Couverture rigide