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Corry, Olaf
(2014).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12057
Abstract
While the rise of ‘resilience’ as a strategic concept has been widely noted, security scholars have given it a frosty reception viewing it as a vehicle and multiplier of neoliberal governmentality. This article acknowledges that resilience does form part of a neoliberal security regime, but argues that a shift from defence to resilience has critical potential in relation to certain aspects of neoliberalism. It begins by arguing that blanket condemnation of resilience is part of a wider tendency to apply Foucault’s ‘governmentality’ concept as a particular global form of power rather than as an empirically sensitive analytic framework open to different configurations of power. It then shows how resilience forms part of a strategy to manage uncertainty - particularly in relation to coping with global environmental risks - that directly challenges neoliberal nostrums. A comparison with the concept of ‘defence’ is then made arguing that resilience, while problematic for other reasons, potentially avoids the pernicious us-them logic, exceptionalism and short-termism characteristic of conventional defence strategies.
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- Item ORO ID
- 39231
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1749-5687
- Keywords
- resilience; risk; governmentality; environment; neoliberalism; security
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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- Olaf Corry