Full Description
'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary sector organisations deemed 'service hubs'.
The process of resilience is compared across ten service hubs in three complex but different global inner-city regions - London, Los Angeles and Sydney - in response to the threat of gentrification-induced displacement. DeVerteuil shows that resilience can be about holding on to previous gains but also about holding out for transformation. The book is the first to move beyond theoretical works on 'resilience' and offers a combined conceptual and empirical approach that will interest urban geographers, social planners and researchers in the voluntary sector.
Contents
Part 1: Theory, concepts and context (title tbc) Chapter 1 introduction: why this work matters, and how it represents urban social geography Chapter 2: resilience as a radical concept? Chapter 3: the voluntary sector and its displacement/resilience within the post-welfare inner city Chapter 4 context and methods Chapter 5: London, Los Angeles and Sydney (new- following proposal refs) Part 2: Case studies: London, Los Angeles and Sydney Chapter 6: established gentrified neighborhoods Chapter 7: mixed neighborhoods Chapter 8: pioneer gentrified neighborhoods Chapter 9: immigrant enclaves Chapter 10: summary and comparative analysis Part 3: Conclusions and looking forward Chapter 11: critical evaluation of 'resilience of the residual' Chapter 12: considering post-welfare geographies?
