Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities?
In recent years, resilience has become an increasing focal point of community studies, in particular for settlements in the peripheral north, which face severe socio-economic and demographic challenges. Not all researchers and practitioners were equally excited about the transfer of this concept – d...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c5849525a0184f5ba7deadeb401d472a 2023-05-15T16:49:28+02:00 Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities? Matthias Kokorsch 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.122522 https://doaj.org/article/c5849525a0184f5ba7deadeb401d472a EN eng Geographical Society of Finland https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/122522 https://doaj.org/toc/1798-5617 doi:10.11143/fennia.122522 1798-5617 https://doaj.org/article/c5849525a0184f5ba7deadeb401d472a Fennia: International Journal of Geography, Vol 200, Iss 2 (2023) Geography (General) G1-922 article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.122522 2023-01-29T01:29:42Z In recent years, resilience has become an increasing focal point of community studies, in particular for settlements in the peripheral north, which face severe socio-economic and demographic challenges. Not all researchers and practitioners were equally excited about the transfer of this concept – deeply rooted in ecology – to the social sciences. Unsurprisingly there is a growing literature that engages critically with community resilience. This reflection takes up some of the main criticism and projects it onto Iceland; a country that can serve as magnifier in the exploration of community resilience for a variety of reasons. The main aim of this reflection is to keep the discussion going about theoretical and analytical insufficiencies within the field of community resilience. Shortcomings of existing definitions, the role of politics and agency as well as the determination of equilibria and the question of an endpoint to resilience are the essential strands of argumentation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Fennia - International Journal of Geography 200 2 |
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In recent years, resilience has become an increasing focal point of community studies, in particular for settlements in the peripheral north, which face severe socio-economic and demographic challenges. Not all researchers and practitioners were equally excited about the transfer of this concept – deeply rooted in ecology – to the social sciences. Unsurprisingly there is a growing literature that engages critically with community resilience. This reflection takes up some of the main criticism and projects it onto Iceland; a country that can serve as magnifier in the exploration of community resilience for a variety of reasons. The main aim of this reflection is to keep the discussion going about theoretical and analytical insufficiencies within the field of community resilience. Shortcomings of existing definitions, the role of politics and agency as well as the determination of equilibria and the question of an endpoint to resilience are the essential strands of argumentation. |
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Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities? |
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