Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City : : Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney / / Geoffrey DeVerteuil.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: DeVerteuil, Geoffrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 44 Black and White

'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

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introducing resilience in the post-welfare inner city: conceptual and methodological considerations -- Introduction -- Resilience and residualism -- The voluntary sector within the post-welfare city -- Methodological approaches -- Case studies: spatial and social resilience in London, Los Angeles and Sydney -- National and local settlements: London, UK; Los Angeles, US; Sydney, Australia -- Established gentrified place-types -- Mixed place-types -- Pioneer gentrified place-types -- Immigrant enclaves -- Comparative analysis and summary -- Conclusions, critical resilience, commons and austerity -- The critical resilience of the residuals -- Here, now: recasting service hubs in an age of austerity -- References -- Index