Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Introduction

   • Martin Endreß, Lukas Clemens, Benjamin Rampp

   Pages 1-10

3. Strategies, Dispositions and Resources – Theoretical Contributions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Mapping Resilience Theory: A Metatheoretical Exploration

      • Mark G. Edwards

      Pages 13-42

   3. Strategies, Dispositions and Resources as Socio-Historical Constructions

      • Martin Endreß

      Pages 43-57

   4. Strategies, Dispositions and Resources in Multi-Level Resilience Processes

      • Benjamin Rampp

      Pages 59-79

4. Medieval Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Resources and Strategies of New Rulers: Early Angevin Rule in Southern Italy (1266 – 1309)

      • Lukas Clemens

      Pages 83-93

   3. Resilience as a Perspective on Medieval Literature: Political Songs and the First Margrave War (1449/50)

      • Beatrice von Lüpke

      Pages 95-119

   4. Disruptive Environmental Change and Resilience: The German South-West in the Later Middle Ages

      • Peter Rückert

      Pages 121-137

   5. More Resilient with Mars or Mary?

      • Gerrit Jasper Schenk

      Pages 139-162

   6. How to Make an Enterprise Resilient: Methodological Questions and Evidence from the Past

      • Markus A. Denzel

      Pages 163-182

   7. Fractured History: Jewish Sources and Narratives of the Plague and of the Black Death Persecutions

      • Julia Itin

      Pages 183-198

   8. Medieval Swedish Provincial Laws as Example of Resilience?

      • Heikki Pihlajamäki

      Pages 201-217

   9. Tipping the Scales of Justice: Roman Law as a Resource in Medieval Legal Discourse

      • Thomas Rüfner

      Pages 219-229

   10. Picking up the Pieces

       • Christoph Cluse

       Pages 231-251

   11. Resilience in Historical Disaster Studies: Pitfalls and Opportunities

       • Tim Soens

       Pages 253-274

5. Reflections/General Comments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275

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   2. Resilience – Potentials and Challenges of an Interdisciplinary Perspective

      • Bo Tackenberg, Tim Lukas

      Pages 277-283

   3. Towards a Resilience Theory that Embraces a Broad Temporal and Scalar Perspective

      • Thorsten Schilling

      Pages 285-288

The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as well, including heterogenic approaches on how to conceptually frame resilience. Common to these approaches is, that resilience becomes topical in the context of analysing phenomena and processes of the ‘resistibility’ of certain (socio-historical) units or actors which are perceived as being faced with various constellations of disruptive change. In this context, resilience is not only taken to mean the opposite of vulnerability, but at the same time, resilience and vulnerability are understood as complementary concepts. From this perspective, vulnerability is a necessary condition of resilience and vice versa. Against this background, the present volume provides a preliminary appraisal of socio-scientific and historical resilience research by assembling contributions of authors originating from different disciplines. Thus, it fosters an interdisciplinary discussion on the theoretical and analytical potentials as well as the empirical applicability of the concept of resilience. 


Contents
Strategies, Dispositions and Resources – Theoretical contributions • Medieval case studies • Reflections and General Comments


The Editors
Dr. Martin Endreß is Professor for General Sociology at the University of Trier.


Dr. Lukas Clemens is Professor for Medieval History at the University of Trier.


Dr. Benjamin Rampp is research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier.

• Social Resilience
• Strategie of Social Resilience
• Resources of Resilience
• Strategies of Resilience
• Jewish Resilience
• Resilience in Historical Studies

• Universität Trier, Trier, Germany

  Martin Endress, Lukas Clemens, Benjamin Rampp

Dr. Martin Endreß is Professor for General Sociology at the University of Trier.


Dr. Lukas Clemens is Professor for Medieval History at the University of Trier.


Dr. Benjamin Rampp is research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier.

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