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dc.contributor.authorOsborne, Natalie
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T23:56:16Z
dc.date.available2021-01-27T23:56:16Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1321-8166
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/qre.2020.20
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/401469
dc.description.abstractI first encountered Walker’s work on resilience when I was a novice researcher in human geography, coming to terms with our failure to mitigate climate change in a timely enough way, and needing something other than mitigation or adaptation to think with. A little over a decade later, I approached Walker’s new book with some hesitation. I have grown worried that resilience places too much importance on strength or robustness, and is insufficiently attentive to what is valuable but intrinsically vulnerable – beings, relations, systems, that cannot be made resilient, but are nonetheless worthy of existence. I also loathe how the term can deflect attention away from the causes of ecological and social harm, busying us with the ever-intensifying task of coping with increasing onslaughts, instead of dismantling the structures causing them.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom208
dc.relation.ispartofpageto209
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalQueensland Review
dc.relation.ispartofvolume27
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther history, heritage and archaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and philosophy of specific fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5002
dc.titleBrian Walker , Finding Resilience: Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019, 157 pp., ISBN 9 7814 8631 0777, A$43.75. (Book review)
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC2 - Articles (Other)
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOsborne, N, Brian Walker , Finding Resilience: Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019, 157 pp., ISBN 9 7814 8631 0777, A$43.75. (Book review), Queensland Review, 2020, 27 (2), pp. 208-209
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dc.date.updated2021-01-26T22:04:17Z
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