.... Sustainability is defined using three theoretical realms from ecology - ecosystem services, resilience, and environmental justice. This meaning of sustainability is operationalized into models by specifying particular components of a system, how those components are related to each other and how they interact...

...Indigenous peoples are widely recognized as holding insights or lessons about how the rest of humanity can live sustainably or resiliently. Yet it is rarely acknowledged in many literatures that for Indigenous peoples living in the context of settler states such as the U.S. or New Zealand, our own...

..., attitudes about disruption and destruction, resilience perceptions, climate change attitudes, etc.)? Finally, the chapter examines how we can do a better job in the modern Facebook and Twitter world to tell the story of survivors and their disaster experiences. boat rescues hurricanes other New Orleans...

... of government. I analyze the rise of the resilience discourse and a neo-cybernetic regime of control that problematize conventional notions of stability to exploit and foster differences and deviances. Next, I attend to new—“probiotic” (Lorimer)—modes of intervention that seek to govern through “nature” rather...

...This chapter focuses on the resilience and coping strategies of transgender intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors, as well as the complex factors that prevent them from leaving abusive relationships. Extensive barriers to help seeking play a significant role in determining whether survivors...

... affordances of everyday life from which they are often excluded. The book also looks at the emotional and affective toll media use takes on transgender individuals, along with their resilience in the face of media disempowerment. Finally, the book complicates the queer/normal binary—recognizing the ways...

... that media discourses threatened to erode. I call this audience practice “resilient reception.” This chapter defines resilient reception, explains how it is both similar to and different from “resistance,” and offers a new way for thinking about audience experiences with media. Resilient reception...

..., and to critique liberal imaginaries of resilience. By ethnographically exploring the case of Aisha, this chapter asks us to consider the effects of war and humanitarianism on the health of those repeatedly subjected to it and the varied modes of attachment to life that are forged in Afghanistan. Afghanistan...

... the Texas Gulf Coast and packing winds of over 130 miles per hour, wreaked havoc and created a path of destruction with bands of rain that seemingly went on forever. Lives were lost, neighborhoods devastated, resiliency cracked; yet people continued helping each other, and the recovery process began...

... by identifying capacities that strengthen community resilience, such as high levels of belonging and civic participation. However, this chapter also reveals how a lack of trust among black and Latinx residents, communication failures between local disaster management and residents, and weak hurricane risk...

...This chapter summarizes the book and proposes conceptual and policy guidance to achieving resilience. I discuss the implication of resilience building in the domestic context, especially with regard to what cities can learn from the New Orleans experience. In revitalizing urban areas, the New...

...Chapter 1 discusses key theoretical issues surrounding civic capacity and urban resilience. After defining “resilience” and identifying the nature of the problem, I explain why communities’ civic strength may lead to vulnerable resilience in the city and how legitimate government coercion can help...

... for themselves, their family members, and their broader community. Furthermore, the courage, determination, and perseverance embodied by ancestors are mirrored in the resilience of the land to withstand natural forces. Even when African Americans acknowledge their complex relationship with the land of the United...

...Cities around the world are experiencing greater water stress as the result of growing urban populations, increasing per capita wealth (and water use), and climate change. This chapter examines the concept urban drought resilience. The central hypothesis of this chapter is that the resilience...

...This afterword discusses the need to move toward analyses of just/ unjust sustainability to just resilience. To better move towards robust and just sustainability, we need a better vocabulary and analytic to not only diagnose problems, but also to understand how their efforts replicate existing...

... moving reflections about human resilience, family justice, and trauma. Ayotzinapa Ciudad Juárez drug trafficking Himno Nacional Mexicano Monterrey narcofosas poverty war on drugs Mexico City conjugal daughter derecho de pernada right to the first night family sexual obligations father...

... more than 400 Latino adolescents and their parents in North Carolina and Arizona, the book explores common risk and resilience factors that underlie the processes of acculturation, enculturation, assimilation, and biculturalism. This introductory chapter discusses the dramatic demographic changes...

... in resilience, disaster purgatories, and patchworks of preparedness described in previous chapters. At the interpersonal level, the chapter introduces the concept of citizen disaster communication. At the organizational and community level, the chapter stresses the need to involve citizens and civic...