Exploring notions and practices of resilience in deprived urban neighbourhoods in the UK Seminar

The term ‘resilience’ is increasingly used, in the context of promoting ‘healthy’ neighbourhoods and communities, to describe properties and behaviours of individuals and populations that can minimise their vulnerability to challenging social and built environments.  This seminar will explore how the term might be deployed in the study of urban alcohol and food environments, the lived experiences of urban regeneration and understanding fraught interactions with welfare benefit and housing officials.  Finally, a brief discussion of the critical implications of ‘resilience’ in health will be provided, along with suggestions for redressing the theoretical imbalance such approaches can entail.