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Resilience, hardship and social conditions

Abstract:: This paper provides a critical assessment of the term ‘resilience’ – and its highly agent-centric conceptualisation – when applied to how individuals and households respond to hardship. We provide an argument for social conditions to be embedded into the framework of resilience analysis. Drawing on two different perspectives in social theory, namely the structure-agent nexus and path dependency, we aim to demonstrate that the concept of resilience, if understood in isolation from the social conditions within which it may or may not arise, can result in a number of problems. This includes misidentification of resilience, ideological exploitation of the term and inability to explain intermittence in resilience.

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Dagdeviren, H., Donoghue, M., & Promberger, M. (2015). Resilience, hardship and social conditions. Journal of Social Policy, 45(1), 1–20.

MLA Style

Dagdeviren, H, et al. “Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions.” Journal of Social Policy, vol. 45, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1–20.

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Dagdeviren, H, M Donoghue, and M Promberger. 2015. “Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions.” Journal of Social Policy 45 (1): 1–20.
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Publisher copy:: 10.1017/s004727941500032x

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+ Dagdeviren, H More by this author

Institution:: University of Hertfordshire
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0002-4606-2042

+ Donoghue, M More by this author

Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: SSD
Department:: Social Policy & Intervention
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0000-0003-0336-1461

+ Promberger, M More by this author

Institution:: Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency
Role:: Author

+ EU Seventh Framework Programme More from this funder

Grant:: 613245
Programme:: Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe (RESCuE)

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Journal:: Journal of Social Policy More from this journal
Volume:: 45
Issue:: 1
Pages:: 1-20
Publication date:: 2015-07-21
DOI:: 10.1017/s004727941500032x
EISSN:: 1469-7823
ISSN:: 0047-2794

Language:: English
Keywords:: SBTMR
Pubs id:: 697892
Local pid:: pubs:697892
Deposit date:: 2020-09-23
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_7c32c20d714c4ff9b683dcf62db081ff

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Copyright holder:: © Cambridge University Press 2015
Copyright date:: 2016
Rights statement:: This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from CUP at https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727941500032X

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