Chapter 1 Introduction: Resilience as a Perspective for the Analysis of Societal Processes

Chapter 2 Resilience Constructions: How to Make the Differences Between Theoretical Concepts Visible?

Chapter 3 The Socio-Historical Constructiveness of Resilience

Chapter 4 The Question of ‘Identity’ in Resilience Research. Considerations from a Sociological Point of View

Chapter 5 Resilience from the Perspective of the Theory of Symbolic Forms

Chapter 6 The Resilience Discourse: How a Concept from Ecology Could Overcome the Boundaries Between Academic Disciplines and Society

Chapter 7 Resilient Cities: Theoretical Conceptualisations and Observations About the Discourse in the Social and the Planning Sciences

Chapter 8 The Emergence of Resilience in German Policy Making: An Anglo-Saxon Phenomenon?

Chapter 9 Resilience, Resistance, Infrapolitics and Enmeshment

Chapter 10 The Imaginary of Resilience: Trauma, Struggle, Life

Chapter 11 Building Community Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Study of International Policy Experiments with Digital Technology in Jakarta

Chapter 12 Resilience as a Security Programme: The Janus Faced Guiding Principle

Chapter 13 Chances of ‘Resilience’ as a Concept for Sociological Poverty Research

Chapter 14 Utilization of Resilience in German Development Policy—An Objective-Hermeneutical Analysis Exemplified by the Case of Welthungerhilfe

Chapter 15 Cultural Resilience as the Resilience of a Distinctness. Distinctness from What? for What?

Chapter 16 Resilience through social cohesion: A case study on the role of organizations