Revisiting ‘resilience’: politics and state practices in a new conjuncture

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Geoforum Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104377

Stephen J. Collier , Savannah Cox , Kevin Grove , Nathaniel O'Grady

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Abstract

This special issue explores the striking proliferation of robust government interventions and forms of political mobilization around resilience today. In contrast to a “first cut” of critical scholarship that tied resilience to depoliticizing neoliberal regimes of governance, the articles in this issue identify resilience as an explicit aim of state actions, a central pillar of state legitimacy, and a contested terrain over which political claims and counter-claims are made. They examine a range of geographies and scales, from major state interventions in the US, the UK, and Southern Africa, to community level actions in the Caribbean. From these varying perspectives, the articles explore how resilience is both shaping and being shaped by a new contemporary conjuncture--one in which international trade, energy security, and planetary life are being reconfigured by state interventions that challenge the norms of liberal politics and economics. Collectively, the articles sharpen our understanding of the present and equip us to ask what kinds of futures are being built, foreclosed, or deferred in the name of resilience.

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重新审视“韧性”：新形势下的政治与国家实践

本期特刊探讨了当今围绕复原力的强有力的政府干预和各种形式的政治动员的惊人扩散。与将弹性与非政治化的新自由主义治理制度联系在一起的批判性学术的“第一次削减”相反，本期的文章将弹性确定为国家行动的明确目标，国家合法性的中心支柱，以及政治主张和反主张的争议领域。他们考察了一系列地域和规模，从美国、英国和南部非洲的主要国家干预，到加勒比地区的社区层面行动。从这些不同的角度出发，文章探讨了弹性是如何塑造和被一个新的当代形势所塑造的——在这个形势下，国际贸易、能源安全和地球生命正在被挑战自由政治和经济规范的国家干预所重新配置。总的来说，这些文章加深了我们对现状的理解，并让我们有能力去问，什么样的未来正在以韧性的名义被建立、被取消赎回权或被推迟。

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Geoforum GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

5.70%

发文量

201

期刊介绍： Geoforum is an international, inter-disciplinary journal, global in outlook, and integrative in approach. The broad focus of Geoforum is the organisation of economic, political, social and environmental systems through space and over time. Areas of study range from the analysis of the global political economy and environment, through national systems of regulation and governance, to urban and regional development, local economic and urban planning and resources management. The journal also includes a Critical Review section which features critical assessments of research in all the above areas.