Community resilience: a useful concept for declining Icelandic communities?

IF 1.3 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
Matthias Kokorsch
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Abstract

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.
社区恢复力:一个对衰落的冰岛社区有用的概念?
近年来,复原力日益成为社区研究的焦点,特别是对于面临严重社会经济和人口挑战的北部外围定居点。并不是所有的研究人员和实践者都对这个深深植根于生态学的概念转移到社会科学感到同样兴奋。不出所料,越来越多的文献批判性地关注社区恢复力。这种反思吸收了一些主要的批评,并将其投射到冰岛;由于各种原因,这个国家可以作为探索社区复原力的放大镜。这一反思的主要目的是继续讨论社区恢复力领域的理论和分析不足。现有定义的缺陷、政治和机构的作用、平衡的确定以及恢复力的终点问题是争论的基本内容。
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