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Narratives of Resilience Workshop - An Urban Worlds Cluster Event

30th May 2012, 13:00 to 17:00, W010, Main Geography Building, Various

This workshop seeks to interrogate the concept of resilience. Even after the most cursory of glances at this term, it becomes clear that ‘resilience’ is used in different ways, at different times, to different ends. That this concept should have a multiplicity of meanings perhaps shouldn’t surprise. However a key intellectual driver behind this event is the attempt to critically reflect on just what is invoked as and when any given topic has recourse to ‘resilience’. So, a definitional way of understanding resilience is not what is sought after here. Rather it is the attempt to understand what is meant when different actors use the term resilience. Having rejected the dictionary definitions of resilience, this workshop takes what might be termed the thesaurus take on the topic. We wish to understand something of the terms’ trajectory in different fields, bringing together various disciplines and concepts for which the term resilience has risen as a prominent discourse. Related to this is why open placeholders, such as resilience, assume positions of prominence. Thus the workshop aims to open up space for discussion of the varying narratives.

12.00pm - 1.00pm: Introductory Lunch

1.00pm - 2.30pm: Narratives of Resilience (Chair: Nathaniel O’Grady)

Chris Zebrowski (Keele University) - The Chrono-politics of Resilience

Rachel Gordon (Durham University) - Coping with Uncertainty: an ordinary case of traffic congestion

General Discussion

2.30pm - 3.00pm Tea and Coffee

3.00pm - 5.00pm: Politics of Resilience (Chair: TBC)

Lucy Rose (Exeter University) - Generating a practice-based narrative of resilience

Md. Nadiruzzaman (Durham University) - Environmental Change, Protection and Displacement: Knowledge, Politics and Voices of the Victims

Tom Henfrey (Durham University) - Title TBC

Discussants: Colin McFarlane & Ben Anderson

Drinks and Dinner

Contact c.m.button@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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