Bouncing Back : Critical Reflections on the Resilience Concept in Japan and South Africa / Tamara Enomoto and Kiyoshi Umeya, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enomoto, Tamara, 1977- editor.

Umeya, Kiyoshi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Japan.

Disasters.

Disasters--South Africa.

South Africa.

Japan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, [2022]

Summary:

In 2018 South Africa's so-called mother city, Cape Town came into the global spotlight as being the first city in the world to (almost)

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Notes on Contributors

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards Calmness after the Turmoil

Part I: Genealogies of the Resilience Concept

Chapter 2: Genealogies of Resilience in the Development and Humanitarian Sector: Potentials and Difficulties

Chapter 3: Covid-19 and the Resilience of Systemic Suppression, Oppression and Repression

Part II: Resilience in Public Discourse in Contexts of Calamity

Chapter 4: Attempts to Promote Resilience at the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake Seismic Centre: Based on Kataribe Story Telling

Chapter 5: Conviviality Created through Resilience: Cultivating the Imagination of 'Different Others' in the Leprosaria of Japan

Part III: Resilient Social systems/Resilience against Anti-Social Systems

Chapter 6: Resilience in a Complex Adaptive Environment: Water Scarcity and Adaptation in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Chapter 7: Resilience or Resistance: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Context of Ugandan Mourning Rituals

Chapter 8: Resilience, the Massification of Grief and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chapter 9: "After the Ash: Witnessing, Holding, Building..." Photographic series

Part IV: Resilience through Art, Ritual, Agency, Resistance

Chapter 10: 'Fletselites': Resilience as Problem and Possibility in Struggles for Justice in South African Schools

Chapter 11: Japanese Folk Performing Arts as Community Resilience

Chapter 12: Resilience to Village Depopulation: A Case Study of the S Village Festival in Sado City of Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Part V: Researching Alternative Understandings of Resilience

Chapter 13: Resilience through the Socio-Musical Significance, Cultural Symbolism and Material Agency of Labrosones (Horns and Trumpets)

Chapter 14: The Resilience of Apartheid and Xenophobia: A Glimpse into Ethnicity and Citizenship in Uber Business in South Africa

Chapter 15: Resilience of Face-to-Face Identity among East African Pastoralists

Chapter 16: 'Whose Gaze Matters?': Re-thinking the Ways in which Whiteness Studies Research has Traditionally Been Done

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789956553266

9956553263

OCLC:

1422848917