From security to resilience? (Neo)liberalism, war and terror after 9/11

Whitham, Ben

doi:10.1080/21693293.2013.842345

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“…This materialized in policies such as the U.S. National Strategy for Homeland Security in 2007, the United Kingdom's Strategic Framework on Community Resilience, and the Australian National Strategy for Disaster Resilience. What becomes interesting, for our analysis, is the political science critique toward these policy development processes being based on an inherently neo-liberalist ideology of governance, i.e., in a reductionist manner, subjectivizing the resilience of the society at the level of the individual actors (Joseph 2013a, b, Schmidt 2013, Whitham 2013. As the Secretary General for the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency concluded: "Another driver is shrinking national budgets that make it impossible to allocate huge sums of money to prevent certain scenarios or substantially minimize risk" (Lindberg andSundelius 2013:1298), and further: "The foundation of a resilient society is having prepared individuals, families and communities.…”

Section: Macro: Societal Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the Macro and the Micro by Considering the Meso: Reflections on the Fractal Nature of Resilience

Bergström¹,

Dekker²

2014

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ABSTRACT. We pursued the following three interconnected points: (1) there are unexplored opportunities for resilience scholars from different disciplines to cross-inspire and inform, (2) a systems perspective may enhance understanding of human resilience in health and social settings, and (3) resilience is often considered to be fractal, i.e., a phenomenon with recognizable or recurring features at a variety of scales. Following a consideration of resilience from a systems perspective, we explain how resilience can, for analytic purposes, be constructed at four scales: micro, meso, macro, and cross-scale. Adding to the cross-scale perspective of the social-ecological field, we have suggested an analytical framework for resilience studies of the health field, which incorporates holism and complexity by embracing an ecological model of cognition, something supported by empirical studies of organizations in crisis situations at various spatial as well as temporal scales.

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Section: Macro: Societal Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%