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This article lends its voice to a growing collection of work that critiques the concept of resilience as currently used in the social sciences. Resilience is a timely and useful concept, but it would benefit greatly from an increased engagement with structural conditions and socio-political, historical and ideological contexts. Currently the concept has a tendency to privilege methodologically individualist approaches that de-emphasise and delegitimise the role of collective social protection.

Dr Matthew Donoghue
University of Hertfordshire

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This page is a summary of: Resilience, Hardship and Social Conditions, Journal of Social Policy, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s004727941500032x.
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