The Social Constructedness of Resilience

Martin Endress
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Martin Endress: Department IV: Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Informatics, University of Trier, Trier 54286, Germany

Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-13

Abstract: This essay aims to clarify what it means to de-essentialize the concept of “resilience”. Pre-determinated assumptions regarding its normativity or positive character are to be disproven in order to conceptualize it as an open (social) process; thus to adopt a social constructivist perspective on the phenomenon to which this term refers, while avoiding the typical pitfalls of relativism.

Keywords: resilience; social construction; relevance; perspectivity; relativism; temporality; normality; power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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