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020			_a9781138896758
082			_a363.34 _bZEB/VAL
100			_aZebrowski,Chris
245			_aThe value of Resilience: Securing life in the Twenty-First Century _cChris Zebrowski
260			_aNEW YORk _bRoutledge _c2017
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500			_aThe 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. Table of Contents Introduction: The Value of Resilience 1. State of Emergency 2. Protect and Survive 3. The Nature of Resilience 4. Securing Emergence 5. The Subject of Resilience Conclusion Bibliography
650			_aEmergency management--Psychological Aspects,Human Security--Great Britain _zGreat Britain
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