Resilience the governance of complexity

Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy 'buzzword' of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This bo...

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Main Author: Chandler, David 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2014
Series:Critical issues in global politics 7
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The rise of resilience
  • Part I: Thematics
  • Governing complexity
  • Resiliece: Putting life to work
  • Part II: Resilience and hte international
  • The politics of limits: The rise of complexity in peacebuilding
  • The 'everyday' policy solution: culture, from limit to resource
  • A new global ehic: The trasformative power of the embedded subject
  • Part III: The politics of resilience
  • Revealing the public: The reality of the event and the banality of evil
  • The deomcracy of participation
  • The poverty of post-humanism
  • Conclusion: Resilience, the promise of complexity.