Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City

Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney

DeVerteuil, Geoffrey, Geoffrey DeVerteuil

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781447316558, 9781447316558
• eBook ISBN: 9781447321286
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

'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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Part One: Introducing resilience in the post-welfare inner city: conceptual and methodological considerations
• Part Two: Case studies: spatial and social resilience in London, Los Angeles and Sydney
• Part Three: Conclusions, critical resilience, commons and austerity
• References