Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions
Dagdeviren, Hulya, Donoghue, Matthew and Promberger, Markus
(2016)
Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions.
Journal of Social Policy, 45 (1): 1.
pp. 1-20.
ISSN 0047-2794
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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Additional information | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Hulya Dagdeviren, Matthew Donoghue, and Markus Promberger, ‘Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions’, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 45 (1), pp. 1-20, first published online 21 July 2015. The final, published version is available online at DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727941500032X © 2015 Cambridge University Press. |
Keywords | resilience, poverty, hardship, social conditions, structure, agency, path dependence |
Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 12:56 |
Last Modified | 04 Jun 2025 23:06 |
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