Reminder:
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce Dr Geoffrey DeVerteuil's talk on "Can Resilience Be Redeemed? A Critical Reflection" in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds on Thursday 19 March 2015, 5:15-6PM. Please find the abstract and directions below.
The School of Geography Seminars are free to attend and meant to be intellectually and socially inclusive. We therefore give all members of staff and interested colleagues and students across institutions a warm welcome. We hope to see many of you for this interesting contribution to our Seminar series. As usual, the Seminar will be followed by some refreshments.
Best wishes,
Dr Karen Bacon & Dr Martin Zebracki
Convenors, School of Geography Seminars
ABSTRACT
Can Resilience Be Redeemed? A Critical Reflection
Dr Geoffrey DeVerteuil, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/about-us/staff/geoff-deverteuil
Thursday 19 March 2015, 5:15-6PM
Location details below
This presentation focuses on how to redeem the concept of resilience for a critical geography, moving beyond knee-jerk critiques and anodyne responses. I underline several key areas of debate -- around adaptation, resistance, transformation and survival -- and illustrate with material from my forthcoming book, specifically the 'how' of resilience via the on-the-ground processes surrounding the fate of precarious inner-city areas deemed 'service hubs' (e.g. clusters of voluntary sector organizations) faced with the threat of gentrification-induced displacement. Put as a question, what accounts for service-hub resilience when other precarious arrangements of collective consumption (especially social housing) have been severely curtailed or fallen by the wayside entirely? After all, even those most convinced of pervasive neoliberalism acknowledge that residual mechanisms of support, survival and 'staying put' from bygone eras still persist in the inner city - it is just that they ignore or assume away the resilience inherent in this process, the actual means of resilience, the agents of resilience, the consequences of such resilience, and how these tendencies may differ comparatively. I wish to see how processes of resilience play out for voluntary sector organizations across inner-city neighborhoods in 3 global city-regions (London, Los Angeles and Sydney). The results suggested a critical intent to the concept of resilience, which is usually seen as regressively status-quo, by developing what I deem a 'critical resilience of the residuals' whereby the precarious relics of previously more equitable (Keynesian) arrangements are defended and perhaps even act as springboards for transformation and 'commons'.
DIRECTIONS
This Seminar will be held in the School of Geography Main Building, Room 1.36: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/contact-us/
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