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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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/122522 2023-05-15T16:49:23+02:00 Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities? Kokorsch, Matthias 2023-01-24 application/pdf https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/122522 https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.122522 eng eng Geographical Society of Finland https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/122522/76026 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/122522 doi:10.11143/fennia.122522 Copyright (c) 2023 Matthias Kokorsch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Fennia - International Journal of Geography; Vol. 200 No. 2 (2022): Depopulation and shrinkage in a northern context: geographical perspectives, spatial processes, and policies; 245–250 Fennia; Vol 200 Nro 2 (2022): Depopulation and shrinkage in a northern context: geographical perspectives, spatial processes, and policies; 245–250 1798-5617 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.122522 2023-01-25T23:58:07Z 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 Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online 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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Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities? |
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Fennia - International Journal of Geography; Vol. 200 No. 2 (2022): Depopulation and shrinkage in a northern context: geographical perspectives, spatial processes, and policies; 245–250 Fennia; Vol 200 Nro 2 (2022): Depopulation and shrinkage in a northern context: geographical perspectives, spatial processes, and policies; 245–250 1798-5617 |
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