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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Organisation of the Anthology; Animating Questions, Themes and the Future of Resilience Machines; Locating the Resilience Machine; Resilience as a Will to Knowledge/Control; Resisting Resilience Machines; Holding Out Hope for Resilience?; References; 1. Anatomy of the Resilience Machine; Introduction; The Genealogy of the Machine; Resilience Machine as Assemblage; Genealogy of Resilience; Conclusion; References.

2. Securing the Imagination: The Politics of the Resilient SelfThe Image of the Resilient Self; The Limits of Imagination; Notes; References; 3. Designing 'Smart' Bodies: Molecular Manipulation as a Resilience-Building Strategy; Designing Smart Bodies; Theorising Smart Bodies; Protological Control; Molecular Manipulation as a Resilience-Building Strategy; The Implications of Smart Bodies: Colonising Our Scientific and Political Imaginations; Notes; References; 4. Organising Community Resilience; Introduction; Social Organisation; Organising Community Resilience.

Alternative Organisations of ResilienceConclusion; Notes; References; 5. Rejecting and Recreating Resilience after Disaster; Introduction; The Entanglement of Crisis Politics and Post Capitalism through Resilience; Exploring Multiple Articulations of Resilience after Disaster; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6. The Resonance and Possibilities of Community Resilience; Introduction; Resilience Meets Community; Unbounding Community; Rethinking 'Community Resilience'; References; 7. Adaptation Machines, or the Biopolitics of Adaptation; Introduction; Re-politicising Adaptive Capacity.

Catastrophe InsuranceConclusions; Notes; References; 8. The Resilient City: Where Do We Go from Here?; The Challenges: Scale, Scope and Focus; Urban Resilience in Global Policy; '100 Resilient Cities'; Implications of a Global Resilience Project; Bridging Strategy, Policy and Practice; End Game or Just Beginning?; Conclusions; Notes; References; 9. Towards a Critical Political Geography of Resilience Machines in Urban Planning; Introduction; Setting the Scene: Urban Planning in Times of Uncertainty and Rising Complexity; Complexity, Urban Planning and Dealing with Nescience.

Urban Planning, System Thinking and Resilience in the Context of Rising ComplexitiesTowards a Critical Political Geography of Resilience Machines; Conclusions; Notes; References; 10. Resilience and Justice: Planning for New York City; New York's Resiliency Planning; Is the Term 'Resilience' Useful in Promoting Justice?; Adaptation to Threat; Countervailing Pressures; Conclusion; Notes; References; 11. Seeking the Good (Enough) City; Introduction; The Urban Age and Its Discontents; The Ruse of Catastrophism; Beyond Simple Secularism; Seeking the Good (Enough) City.

Conclusion: Resilience without Hope.

We live in a time where environmental pressures, social inequities and political derision are the backdrop of everyday life, and where resilience has become a routine prescription for coping with the conditions of modern existence. Drawing an analogy to Harvey Molotch's urban growth machine, this book explores different narratives of resilience and their policy and practice manifestations for cities, citizens and communities. It expands on the metaphor of the machine to show how resilience can be better understood as an assemblage. Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and different parts of the world, the book unmasks the often invisible effects of resilience strategies by examining ways in which neoliberal mentalities are fed through the rhetoric of resilience practices, policies and development projects. The contributing essays provide provocative accounts of several areas of inquiry, including biopolitics and smart bodies, resilient cities and communities, urban planning and disaster management, justice and vulnerability, and resistance to resilience. Holding out hope for critical potentials in 'resilience, ' The Resilience Machine proposes to move beyond mechanisms of adaptation and into imagining what resilient life could look like in a more just, equitable and democratic world. The Resilience Machine is a current, vital addition to resilience, community and urban scholarship.

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