Reflections on Urban Resilience | Resilience Science
Over at the Resilience Science blog, two reflections on resilience in cities. Here is the first, on resilience as social trust, from Arjun Appadurai, writing on: Is Mumbai's resilience endlessly renewable?
Many well-meaning observers have stressed the "resilience", the mutual generosity, the quotidian heroism and the remarkable resistance of Mumbaikars to jump to quick conclusions or hasty reprisals. I too congratulate and celebrate these facts. But I fear that all resilience is historically produced. And what history gives, history can take away. Yes, we are all Mumbaikars now. But in a world that links Mumbai, Kashmir, Karachi, Madrid, Peshawar, London, Wall Street, Washington and Faridkot, that is not necessarily a source of comfort. Resilience is a public resource. But, unlike terror, it is not indefinitely renewable.
Source: Resilience Science
