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...Beatrice Jauregui This article theorizes ongoing US-led global warfare as a “positive science” based in communal, familial, and humanistic values manifest in outreach practices conducted by the US Army. Analyzing the history of recruitment and recently developed resilience training and civil...

...—form a powerful set of resistance tactics that embody possibly universal lessons in urban resilience. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian ( 2021 ) has identified this interdependence of government bodies, security enterprises, and Elad and Ateret Cohanim as “collusion.” In 2017 the Israeli Knesset approved...

... and postcolonial tensions. As such, they function as nodes across a global network of minor realms. Third, their capacity for resilience and their potential for survival in the face of existential challenges are derived from a concentration of “organic connectors.” The authors define the concept of the “organic...

...Daniel Aldana Cohen In the fall of 2014, Rebuild by Design, an initiative of President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, convened an international working group of experts to advance a global conversation on resiliency, design, and politics. As part of that process...

... on adaptation over mitigation. 6 Organized around categories of “victimhood” and “vulnerability” and the identification of threat and danger, security and adaptation share a common logic. The concept of “resilience,” now firmly established in the lexicon of government in Bogotá, also makes intuitive sense...

... : University Press of Kansas . Bean Hamilton Keränen Lisa Durfy Margaret . 2011 . “ ‘This Is London’: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Discourse of Resilience in the Case of the 7/7 Terrorist Attacks .” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 14 , no. 3 : 427 – 64 . Billig Michael . 1995...

... . “ Resilience: A Commentary from the Vantage Point of Anthropology .” Annals of Anthropological Practice 40 , no. 1 : 28 – 38 . Bateson Gregory . 1969 . Steps to an Ecology of Mind . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Benadusi Mara . 2014 . “ Pedagogies of the Unknown...

... but democratic regimes). New York and Barcelona provide other models of urban resilience. The two hundred – year- old Manhattan grid (Ballon 2012; Kimmelman 2012), a brutally honest piece of real estate subdivision carved out of earth and rock...

... to a much wider array of circumstances. 3 The ethical challenges posed by a focus on endurance resonate with concerns that Andrea Muehlebach (2013 : 301) (reading Catherine Fennell) raises about “resilience,” that it can “perform a kind of violence as those with the privilege of detecting...

...-together infrastructure of the cities of the global South are said to have displayed an unusual resilience. Of course, this paradox is based on a set of assumptions that have been maintained in the face of enormous evidence to the contrary. Resilience, in our view, is a false and redemptive norm that masks...

... that is very flexible, very resilient to Postcolonial to symbolize these ideas and characteristics. In this way, if you want to African Politics describe a personality through this kind of symbolism, you use the name of the tree that is resilient to talk about the personality that is resilient. If you...

... in the world they must navigate as independent adults. It is our mission to help in that process. Right now, in MOOCs and in our brick-and- mortar classrooms, we’re mostly doing a good job preparing students for the industrial age labor market — not to be engaged and resilient contributors in a global...

... resulted in the deaths of dozens of people, possibly more, as 4.5 million customers lost power (Mulcahy 2021 ). While cities within Texas's own separate ERCOT grid lost power, others like El Paso that remain connected to the regional Western Interconnection grid were more resilient (Juarez 2021...

..., I offer four conceptual lenses for understanding institutional relationships to infrastructure, brought into relief by bookmobiles as they traverse social and geographic terrains: tactical mobility; language and/as structures; resilient materiality; and rhizomatic archiving. In the very act...

... of Citi Microfinance and Community Development, went further. In the opening session of the conference, he boldly claimed the theme of “resilient finance,” rehearsing a recurrent narrative about microfinance in times of financial crisis...

... seriousness and resilience, one of the first assignments was to catch baby squirrels for the making of brushes. He did teach us how to make brushes by hand, but what fascinated me more was the way our training was conducted—the play, the subtle provocation—I was inter- ested in seeing what could be learned...

...: University of Illi- nois Press. Goodall, Heather, and Allison Cadzow. 2009. Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney’s Georges River. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. Gustafson, Bret. 2009. New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge...

... model of security that creates increasingly postcolonial imbalances of power across the planet. RN: Susie O’Brien [“On the Edge of Resilience”] is doing invaluable work in this regard, focusing on resilience , which she recognizes as a term with radical potential that, like so many vital words...

..., becomes something amorphous, refuting fixedness, groundedness or stereotyping. Its self-rootedness, an archetype for the resilience of women who carry their roots where they go, questions the fallacy of assimilation versus foreignness. The sculptures are neither a fixed point in the landscape nor...

... framework. But there were ethnic dimen- sions to the war, including a racist tendency on the American side to demean the Vietnamese during a decade of one-sided combat. Yet the psychic resilience of Vietnamese culture was such that these dimensions left few discernible traces of bitterness. What seems...