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The multidisciplinary discourse of and about ‘resilience’ has achieved considerable prominence especially within the last three decades. We find the term being used in a variety of ways and with a diverse array of meanings in numerous scientific, professional and even everyday contexts. Professional actors ‘observe’ phenomena through a conceptual apparatus centered on resilience; academic disciplines, meanwhile, use this concept to ‘observe’ both the everyday, professional (practicing therapists, pedagogues, psychologists) and political uses of the concept (‘the jargon of resilience’), as well as scrutinizing academic perspectives that deploy the term.
An earlier version of this paper was published open access in “Social Sciences” 2015, 4, 533-545 (Endress 2015a); https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci4030533 (ISSN 2076-0760; www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci).
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The same argument appears in Oevermann’s (2003) systematic reflections on the methodological classification of a social constructionist perspective.
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One of these interpretations then proceeds to identify a process of neoliberalization, see Joseph 2013.
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See, for instance, Joseph, who points out “[t]he conservative ontology behind this” (2013, p. 43).
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For a first attempt to discuss this issue in dialogue with classic sociological contributions, see Endress and Rampp 2014.
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In contrast to the contribution by Olsson et al. (2015).
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Endreß, M. (2019). The Socio-Historical Constructiveness of Resilience. In: Rampp, B., Endreß, M., Naumann, M. (eds) Resilience in Social, Cultural and Political Spheres. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15329-8_3
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