The Social Constructedness of Resilience

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...

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Main Author: Martin Endress
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-07-01
Series:Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/533